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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them read the fucking manual.
How would you know you can find the answer there if you hadn't already read it and therefore know the answer?
Maybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was.
This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.
This is it exactly. I know it is there, but I'm hazy on what it was exactly and it needs to be 100% right.
I'll wait until someone who knows just replies the answer to me, kthx. [sinks bait back down]
And people will, too. People love sharing knowledge. Whether it be altruistic or self-affirming. Heck, I've necro-bumped stuff just to add some tid-bits, myself.
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.
I see what you did there and I'm not going to fully fall for it.
A few months ago a Lemmy user stridently demanded sources for a comment I posted. Since he literally could have found the information with less effort by a Google search, I refused to do it for him. Other Lemmy users argued that I should be this dope's reference librarian, and another guy actually did the Google search for him and posted the results.
People are astoundingly lazy and even many Lemmy users want to be spoon-fed.
In a debate, if you make a claim the onus to provide a source is on you; not the person you're arguing with.
If its the first link on google, I usually just give them the lmgtfy link to make it clear that they are being lazy.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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