HobbitFoot to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoWhen 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.message-squaremessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down17
arrow-up165arrow-down1message-squareWhen 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.HobbitFoot to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square28linkfedilink
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 hours agoYou 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.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours ago 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.
minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·15 hours agoI see what you did there and I’m not going to fully fall for it.
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.
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.
I see what you did there and I’m not going to fully fall for it.