HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-square27fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down17
arrow-up168arrow-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 @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months 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-up2·2 months 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.
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.