Stop talking to that ill-mannered, petulant child

Guys RTFA

It’s just a mild variant.

Read before you type, K?

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What species of grass do you think will produce the most acceptable results should I touch it? Do you think Kentucky bluegrass is the best?

I hear what you’re saying, my point is invalid because I haven’t touched grass, so I need you to answer this question.

There’s communities designed for that. For example Casual Conversation.

I’m not backing down.

My suggestion is not to engage in conversation when they are “in the weeds” and talking to the music in their head. What they are describing really has nothing to do with the concern you’re bringing up

This is exactly why we need a moderated community that keeps these kinds of people out - those simply incapable of having a productive or on-topic dialogue. Most of these people can’t go half of a sentence before talking to the music box in their subconscious. I’m not seeing any kind of good faith dialogue where one logical concept flows into the next.

This person has constructed a straw man where your underlying point apparently is invalid because you haven’t come up with a specific topic suggestion.

And then they’ve gone off to invoke specters and boogeymen about pedophilia and stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with this!!!

Like these people are just assholes. There, I said it.

Right! “No stupid questions” isn’t just a cute saying, the intention behind it was to remove the shame people would carry for asking a question that they “should” already know the answer to.

It was never meant to solicit opinions, or to ask pointless questions that cannot be answered.

It’s time for this community to change, I’m not going to make a big poo poo about it, but I’m going to leave if something doesn’t happen. I can sense other people have had it as well.

They are wrong.

They are lazy.

If they don’t want to shape this into a community where people can actually ask questions that can produce a meaningul answers, it’s just a pointless chat room.

I have many pins here, so try again.

It already is. That was the whole point of this post.

Yesterday a moderator told me that it was not a stupid question to ask if a ship can fit in a Klein bottle.

So I’m basically trolling. I’m leaving this community if the mods don’t step up.

It’s gotten totally out of hand.

Please answer my question.

Please don’t be disheartened!

The people screaming at you are the ones who feel personally insulted, because they are terrified that you might not want to hear the stupidity that flows from their keyboard.

You can see them constructing, in real time, all kinds of strawmen about why it shouldn’t exist.

And to support you, many communities exist where moderators undertake the task of preventing uninformed and pointless discussion from taking over. There’s a couple of science and physics-based ones that I can recall from Reddit… where if you made any comment that he was slightly off topic, speculative, or not rooted in the ethic of scientific discovery… it was instantly removed.

Further to that, I can think of many communities where if you are not a professional in the field, a credentialed scientist, or able to demonstrate competency, you’re simply not allowed to be there. Not just not comment, one can’t even be there.

Stay strong. Your point has been more than proven by the babies squabbling here.

This entire comment section is filled with people talking to the music in their head, not to you or the topic you’ve raised.

This is the fundamental issue at play, people have severe self worth and emotional issues, and they leap at any chance to show it to the world.

Don’t you dare advocate any place where they can’t shoot their mouth off endlessly without considering their words!! Don’t be elitist! The stupids have value toooo!!!1

From what I see in your comment, you’re basically asking for a place where moderation handles endless logical fallacy, surly childish remarks, uninformed buffoonery, obnoxious aggressive posturing… Apparently that’s too much for people to handle.

I would love what you are advocating for, but we need something like an intelligence or LSAT-style test to vet people. 95% of people have absolutely fuck all to say. 95% of people literally cannot think; they are trapped in some kind of quasi-thought process that is largely governed by emotional self-protection mechanisms.

You really nailed it, plus it constantly creates this cloud of confusion in the consumer’s mind.

I do a lot of electronic repair, and I see people make incredibly stupid decisions because they are convinced by one small detail that the manufacturer emphasizes, which has no actual bearing on quality!

For example, I do a lot of repair for different types of salons in my city. I might repair professional hair tools that don’t have available replacement parts, or I will fix professional nail UV lights. I fix vacuums for one-woman small cleaning companies, etc.

And I see very interesting things. Every one of the small businesses I serve, also has a small second-hand market that goes along with it. They are constantly buying and selling their used devices among one another.

I will see those markets completely collapse when a manufacturer that has made a device for 15 years suddenly adds the word “xtreme” to the product. Like magic, the used salon tool that was selling for $200, is now worth $50 at best because it’s not “xtreme”. Exact same device. They are professional workhorse tools that have not changed in 40 years.

edit: Oh also… most people don’t realize that there’s like one manufacturer for most things that are then sold under various brand names.

I talked about the hair tools… if you paid more than $75 for [INSERT HAIR TOOL NAME] I’d bet a week’s earnings it was made by DANNYCO. Babyliss used to be Isinis… the trusted leader in professional hair tools. It’s just DANNYCO stuff. It’s always been DANNYCO and it will always be DANNYCO.

I’ve fixed or rebuilt 40 LCD TVs in the last year… unless you are in the Samsung or Sony money-range, every singe one at retail is made from identical components - same motherboards, WiFi chips, button panels, IR receivers, inverters, T-cons, LCD panels… it’s crazy and people have no idea

Most of the brands you know and love have been playing the “white label” game before you even knew the terms, way before the Internet existed.

If a question is structured such that it’s unanswerable you’ve got a stupid question on your hands.

Everybody knows that “no stupid questions” means you’re not supposed to be embarrassed by asking something you don’t know.

But when you show up asking a specifically unanswerable question, you’re just a troll. Yes a harmless troll but it’s just trolling; it’s just time wasting.

Nope. Most tech people don’t know what markdown is.

And the director needs to be shouting instructions at the actor… Move your head more, like you’re dodging real bullets

Well that’s just not true.

Your response is actually baffling to me.

I’m not sure why you think parents are there to serve you every piece of knowledge.

You’re an autonomous human being and you’d better learn how to learn on your own if you want to have a happy, functional life.

As you get older you’re going to realize that nobody is going to spoon-serve you free knowledge … That’s something that is hard fought, absolutely not a gift from parents or anything else. You have to do the work.

The fact that you just cherry-pick and poo poo my comment is a little bit sad. I see you self-imposing helplessness upon yourself, it’s a really poor attitude. I think you’re actually just lazy.

This actually is a stupid question