HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours 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-square24fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down15
arrow-up158arrow-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 · 9 hours agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 hours 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-up1·17 minutes 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.
minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 hours agoI see what you did there and I’m not going to fully fall for it.
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.
I see what you did there and I’m not going to fully fall for it.