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Why can't people just say "sorry, I don't know the answer"?

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eti:
I know this is Captain Obvious territory, but this makes me despair for society. Barely anyone with any ACTUAL credibility and life experience in a profession, is able to make themselves heard above the incessant noise of "answers" and "solutions"/"tutorials" that is Joe Blogs types (often, and usually millennials) spewing out copy/pasted speculative bullshit that they've heard and ARE PASSING ON BUT HAVEN'T TESTED.

There's nothing that makes me more irritated and distrusting of the great unwashed out there, than the sea of morons who simply can't STAND not to be the one shoving their hand in the air, so to speak, saying "ME ME ME MEMEMEMEMEMEEEE! LISTEN TO ME OVER THE OTHERS, I HAVE THE SOLUTION!" and when there's a trillion and one of these goons out there, each INCAPABLE of simply saying "I'm sorry, I just don't know the answer" - when you have a dumbed down, clickbaity, metrics-are-all-that-matter "like comment and sub-scraaaaaab" bullshit internet "society", how is anyone supposed to know where to go for ACTUAL EXPERIENCE (apart from here of course, but even then we get a little bit of this)

People online are generally, usually, full of utter shit. Sorry to be so blunt but you can't dig through horse shit "answers" for hours and hours for every single answer, it's tedious and exhausting. Why can't folk just keep their know-it-all-but-really-not-at-all traps shut, instead of DESPERATELY needing to feel validated, even if their "advice" is utter bollocks (and usually it is)?




greenpossum:

--- Quote from: eti on September 19, 2020, 12:23:21 am ---Why can't people just say "sorry, I don't know the answer"?

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Sorry I don't know the answer.  :-DD

eti:

--- Quote from: greenpossum on September 19, 2020, 12:24:45 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on September 19, 2020, 12:23:21 am ---Why can't people just say "sorry, I don't know the answer"?

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Sorry I don't know the answer.  :-DD

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Now that was a terse, elegant and spectacular response. I wish I could give you a prize.  :D

Circlotron:
An on duty policeman gave me a speeding ticket.
That was a uniformed opinion.

AlfBaz:

--- Quote from: eti on September 19, 2020, 12:23:21 am ---... saying "ME ME ME MEMEMEMEMEMEEEE! LISTEN TO ME OVER THE OTHERS, I HAVE THE SOLUTION!"

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Facts are hard, they require irrefutable evidence and what's worse if that evidence is something that the majority of people haven't experienced in their day to day lives then they have to believe the source or have confidence in it. These two things can be eroded by a constant barrage of bullshit.

Opinions on the other hand are easy to come by and barely distinguishable from facts in most peoples minds. They do, however, require validation so the loudest most obtuse dickhead will always have the floor and be able to generate the constant barrage of bullshit needed to undermine facts that oppose their opinions

That's my opinion :)

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