I'm studying right now and I'm the lead for a group project. I've been having a hard time getting the team to actually talk with each other and come up with ideas. Someone told me the other week "pitch bad ideas badly". So I tried that with the title of our project I put down a shit awful name, told everyone about it, and within 5 minutes the team came back to me with an actual title

Phishing legitimate answers out of people by exploiting their ego is still one of the most impressive things I haven't thought of.

Will try to keep in mind

“style at the time”

I learned to let you all squabble amongst yourselves and get the answer. Since every question is a duplicate, it stands to reason the question I have has already been answered.

I used to do this on Reddit. Someone would post a question I too wanted an answer to, but no one was answering. So, I'd post a wrong answer.

This actually has a name, it's called Goodhart's Law

all you had to do was confidently post an answer, any answer, especially if it was wrong

so called murphy's law...

And then it turns out that it was himself last month.

At least it tells me I'm right all the time. 🤗

It was Experts Exchange. Then they paywalled everything like greedy idiots - hiding decades of useful community knowledge.

Then everyone moved rapidly to StackExchange, which had coexisted but been quite small until EE did their thing.

Go to any linux forum or help site today and you can experience it right now.

I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars

Frankly, still one of the better ways to waste time on the internet

It's called humiliation kink, you stupid stupid boy.

RTFM of a different software which the software you are actually interacting with employs. (E.g. having problems with an application that downloads stuff, need to read curl docs because thats what it is using under the hood.)

What.