How I Replaced Deadly Garage Door Torsion Springs

Re:How I Replaced Deadly Garage Door Torsion Springs by wigglewoggle on Monday March 18, 2024 @09:01PM (#39751923)

It's interesting whenever this comes up on Reddit and there are a hundred comments parroting how dangerous this is, but on closer inspection you can see the comments cannot discriminate between important details - eg. talking about how dangerous extension springs are, having no clue that they are different than torsion springs. Always fun to see how many people will pretend they have knowledge on a subject they have no experience in.

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Re:How I Replaced Deadly Garage Door Torsion Springs by MichaelMug on Monday March 18, 2024 @09:08PM (#39751967)

> hundred comments parroting how dangerous this is

And every time a similar post or question is made the same responses are parroted again.

I’ve read so much Reddit in college that I would play a game where id try to guess what the top voted comments would say. After a while it becomes tiring to read the same things over and over again.

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Re:How I Replaced Deadly Garage Door Torsion Springs by pests on Saturday March 23, 2024 @05:15PM (#39803133)

Yep, can even go levels deep and correctly guess replies to relies. Or what song are they going to sing line by line? too predictable.

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Re:How I Replaced Deadly Garage Door Torsion Springs by winkelmann on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @02:10AM (#39753361)

Something I've noticed is that, when under the guise of safety/"don't do this thing", netizens seem to have few inhibitions sharing information from topics they barely understand or have experience in. Some caution is always good, but I feel like people are too comfortable using it as an excuse for sharing unsubstantiated information as fact.

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