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I think this advice is largely geared toward dealing with the "Eternal September" dynamic of a small number of elders/experts being overwhelmed by exposure to t
by 0xcde4c3db 4y ago
I think this advice is largely geared toward dealing with the "Eternal September" dynamic of a small number of elders/experts being overwhelmed by exposure to the general public in relatively unstructured forums like Usenet and mailing lists (despite being tagged 2014, the original is much older). I'm not sure we really live in that world anymore.
- dsr_ 4y agoWe do still live in that world: in technical mailing lists and forums and even in Q&A sites, asking a good question rewards you with better answers and discussion than asking a badly worded form of the same question.