Because of the bullshit assymmetry principle, this just means people end up burned out from answering things, which is one of the goals of bad faith questions.
Doesnt matter if its in bad faith or not, just answer the question with an honest answer. Even if its a bad faith question, the answer isnt. And plenty of other people will read it.
copy/paste is your friend :)
From what Ive seen, and Im not accusing you, is that a lot of people dont want to give any answers. One of the worst things Ive seen being repeated like a mantra is “its not my job to educate you.”. Like its this hand wave to the responsibility that we all have to make sure that misinformation cant run unchecked. I saw this on Reddit especially, and what happened was that all those people who had questions were abused and told to “educate yourself”, as though treating people like this was the key to winning arguments. The result was shock and horror that Trump won in 2016 and then again later when Brexit happened.
So while it can be annoying, IMO, its import to always answer questions. Even if its just copy/pasting in an answer that youve already given before. This is turn helps to avoid echo chambers, because other people can correct me and you, should we have gotten the wrong information about something. It keeps us all honest. I mean, for shits and giggles Ive said some things that were straight up bullshit. But it fit the narrative, and people upvoted. No one pushed back at all. And thats pretty scary if you think about it.
Because of the bullshit assymmetry principle, this just means people end up burned out from answering things, which is one of the goals of bad faith questions.
Doesnt matter if its in bad faith or not, just answer the question with an honest answer. Even if its a bad faith question, the answer isnt. And plenty of other people will read it.
copy/paste is your friend :)
From what Ive seen, and Im not accusing you, is that a lot of people dont want to give any answers. One of the worst things Ive seen being repeated like a mantra is “its not my job to educate you.”. Like its this hand wave to the responsibility that we all have to make sure that misinformation cant run unchecked. I saw this on Reddit especially, and what happened was that all those people who had questions were abused and told to “educate yourself”, as though treating people like this was the key to winning arguments. The result was shock and horror that Trump won in 2016 and then again later when Brexit happened.
So while it can be annoying, IMO, its import to always answer questions. Even if its just copy/pasting in an answer that youve already given before. This is turn helps to avoid echo chambers, because other people can correct me and you, should we have gotten the wrong information about something. It keeps us all honest. I mean, for shits and giggles Ive said some things that were straight up bullshit. But it fit the narrative, and people upvoted. No one pushed back at all. And thats pretty scary if you think about it.