HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days 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-square28fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down17
arrow-up167arrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days 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-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoI see what you did there and I’m not going to fully fall for it.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days 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.
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.
I see what you did there and I’m not going to fully fall for it.
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.