Notices by Konrad :amogus: (konradmb@mastodon.social)

@TechConnectify This leads to a culture where everyone is afraid to ask basic questions.

@TechConnectify I've seen a thread here (I mean on this platform), where a genuine, honest question (I'm convinced it was) has been group-dismissed as "sealioning".

@TechConnectify I don't know why, but I got the impression that you are proposing to dismiss those questions without proper response. I'm wrong, right?

@TechConnectify Meh, it's easy to think "it's a bad-faith question", but you can't really prove that. I mean - it's not a falsifiable hypothesis, so it's unable to be proven. So to err on the side of caution I'd give a proper response.

@TechConnectify I'm sorry, but I can't agree with that. If someone is looking for a slip-up, it will happen sooner or later. I couldn't keep up with checking if some questions are good- or bad-faith. It's a siege mentality.

Dismissing questions as bad-faith is (was) often done on Polish DIY board elektroda.pl. That culture was so popular with the older generation of tech-folks it permeated through the whole scene, that I've had a college lecturer that behaved in the same way IRL.