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Re:The Costs of Requiring Accounts by afarrell on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:49AM (#29172509)
1. That feedback is not really as high quality as asking an insightful question.

2. Doing this burns trust, especially if done deliberately.

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Re:The Costs of Requiring Accounts by RNCTX on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:05AM (#29172598)
Depends on your audience.

I can point to a handful of low-effort journos whose whole schtick is asking dumb questions on Twitter so that the would-be know-it-alls can post "well, actually" to them in the replies.

By virtue of the engagement numbers they clearly love it, and come back for more slop every day.

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Re:The Costs of Requiring Accounts by cyberpunkdyst on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:34AM (#29172810)
#1 Requires some knowledge to do, which can be hard. I do agree that #2 is very true and indeed what I mean by bein stupid is ”exposing your own stupidity/lack of knowledge” rather than playing stupid.
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