When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read.
When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them read the fucking manual.
I'll wait until someone who knows just replies the answer to me, kthx. [sinks bait back down]
And people will, too. People love sharing knowledge. Whether it be altruistic or self-affirming. Heck, I've necro-bumped stuff just to add some tid-bits, myself.
You have to post a wrong answer on an alt so that someone will post the correct answer to look smart. It's called Poe's Law.
I see what you did there and I'm not going to fully fall for it.
to look smart
That's the self-affirming part that I mentioned. But some do it out of the kindness of their own heart, too.
I am "guilty" of both, for sure.
A few months ago a Lemmy user stridently demanded sources for a comment I posted. Since he literally could have found the information with less effort by a Google search, I refused to do it for him. Other Lemmy users argued that I should be this dope's reference librarian, and another guy actually did the Google search for him and posted the results.
People are astoundingly lazy and even many Lemmy users want to be spoon-fed.
If its the first link on google, I usually just give them the lmgtfy link to make it clear that they are being lazy.
It was and I should have probably done the same.
It's not about wanting information. It's about dragging you into an endless, un-resolvable discussion.
How would you know you can find the answer there if you hadn't already read it and therefore know the answer?
Maybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was.
This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.
This is it exactly. I know it is there, but I'm hazy on what it was exactly and it needs to be 100% right.
I'm sure where I can find the conversion rate between Celsius and Fahrenheit, but I'll never remember it
