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Re: [Suggestion] Technical Trust [TT]
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EthanB
on 03/02/2018, 20:44:35 UTC
Let's focus on suggestions to solve this problem (if you consider it a problem)

I'm happy to focus on suggesting solutions to the problem of uninformed users in the technical section, but nobody is going to be happy with the suggestion(s). 99.99% of the questions in the sections you're talking about can be solved by reading material and information that is already out there. If users read the official material already released, the whitepapers, the development, Satoshi's posts/emails almost every single question asked these days would disappear.

The truth is that it is not on anybody else to make sure you are getting good information from a 3rd party. The solution is to become more informed, use the search bar, read guidelines, rules, announcements, manuals, etc. It would be nonsensical to impose a greater workload on the moderators and community, because some users are unwilling to verify the validity of information, or even seek information from the proper source. Although no, I do not see this as a problem in itself, as Lauda mentioned it is stemming from elsewhere, one problem being the incentive to post without considering what you are even typing. Ranking up from spamming (Merit fixes this) in order to get into a signature campaign or something similar. Educating and informing our community is the best way to avoid bad answers and ignorant questions; there is no way to police idiocy without damning the curious.

I was originally trying to help reconcile your disagreement with Lauda about the criteria for which we would be judging these posts, seemingly that would be part of the solution should we have decided to go your direction.