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Correcting > Helping (feddit.de)

submitted 2 years ago by genfood@feddit.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The major problem with reddit is that you could never really trust the credentials of the person you were talking to. They might have been PhDs or they might have been 13 year olds who just learned to Google. It amazes me how many times I saw a highly upvoted comment posted about a subject that I knew a lot about, but was just so blatantly wrong.

[–] Feyter@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

To be fair this is not a Reddit thing and it can be found in the fediverse too. I can remember some of such situations where a person just posted wrong stuff but in a very confident way. I was able to prove him wrong later but nobody cared anymore.