The person who asks a question gets little to no votes despite the answer and discussion not existing at all if it weren’t for someone asking it in the first place. Sometimes it even gets the gears turning in people’s heads to spawn better discussions and questions with certain lines of thinking they otherwise wouldnt. I swear, people these days act like not knowing something trivial is a crime or is the most embarrassing thing in the world lol we need to bring back the “no stupid questions” thing that teachers used to tell students.
On the flip side, ofc the question can genuinely be bad or is something easily searchable that has a boring topic/answer, but I’m moreso just talking about ones that you’d want different opinions or perspectives on nuanced topics. Too many times I’ve seen people shamed to look stupid for not knowing things that are very specific or is uncommon knowledge that they’d want a genuine explanation of from an actual human being. There’s so many classic Reddit comments like this that wouldn’t have existed if someone didn’t ask shit in the first place lol
More importantly, I appreciate all the curious people who actually make the effort to post because I’d rather them do that than to simply ask an LLM tbh… I know redditors are infamous for being toxic and condescending to feel superior about their intelligence (and I can totally understand why someone would rather not get roasted on Reddit lmao) but I’d rather endure all of that so I can hold onto last remaining bits of genuine human interaction that’s left on the Internet before I ever resort to asking an LLM. Every website will be overrun with bots soon enough and truly nothing will be real. Talking to people on Lemmy makes me feel like I’m back on the old internet browsing forums and message boards in the 90s/2000s again. It’s the only place that isn’t enshitified to make money in every single aspect. I’d rather keep it like this.
The person who asks a question gets little to no votes despite the answer and discussion not existing at all if it weren’t for someone asking it in the first place. Sometimes it even gets the gears turning in people’s heads to spawn better discussions and questions with certain lines of thinking they otherwise wouldnt. I swear, people these days act like not knowing something trivial is a crime or is the most embarrassing thing in the world lol we need to bring back the “no stupid questions” thing that teachers used to tell students.
On the flip side, ofc the question can genuinely be bad or is something easily searchable that has a boring topic/answer, but I’m moreso just talking about ones that you’d want different opinions or perspectives on nuanced topics. Too many times I’ve seen people shamed to look stupid for not knowing things that are very specific or is uncommon knowledge that they’d want a genuine explanation of from an actual human being. There’s so many classic Reddit comments like this that wouldn’t have existed if someone didn’t ask shit in the first place lol
More importantly, I appreciate all the curious people who actually make the effort to post because I’d rather them do that than to simply ask an LLM tbh… I know redditors are infamous for being toxic and condescending to feel superior about their intelligence (and I can totally understand why someone would rather not get roasted on Reddit lmao) but I’d rather endure all of that so I can hold onto last remaining bits of genuine human interaction that’s left on the Internet before I ever resort to asking an LLM. Every website will be overrun with bots soon enough and truly nothing will be real. Talking to people on Lemmy makes me feel like I’m back on the old internet browsing forums and message boards in the 90s/2000s again. It’s the only place that isn’t enshitified to make money in every single aspect. I’d rather keep it like this.