• @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      07 months ago

      Wikipedia then. Lazy people asking stupid questions instead of googling on their own are even more annoying.

      • @lseif@sopuli.xyz
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        07 months ago

        maybe they want to gauge different opinions and reasoning. not everything has a simple definitive answer. if u dont want to answer, ignore the post.

        • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          maybe they want to gauge different opinions and reasoning.

          If those people cared to google first, they’d stumble onto existing answers to the same question. Such questions get asked over and over again. Those people would know that if they cared to google first.

          if u dont want to answer, ignore the post.

          Same applies to answers you don’t like: Ignore them, don’t whine how toxic people are.

          • @lseif@sopuli.xyz
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            1. often, yes, the same questions are made; but just as often the questions are set in different contexts or asked in different communities. regardless, technology and the opinions around it change, so some new discussions should be started regularly, if just to prevent information from stagnating.

            2. the difference between asking a genuine question and those crude responses (and similarly, your comment), is that the question has a purpose: it sparks constructive conversation by inviting people to share their opinion, and the (helpful) responses ultimately benefit the asker. whereas the responses only exist to spite those looking for genuine answers; to waste their time and put them down. to reply like that benefits you only with a sense of superiority, at the cost of depreciating and sidetracking the discussion.

            before you compare this chain to a toxic comment, realize that neither of us are reiterating dogma or making attacks at the other’s willingness to learn. i’m not saying what is being said here has never been said before, just that your average reader may very well take away new perspective from both arguments. and isnt that what discussion is all about ?