[oskarth]

Hear hear! At Recurse Center this is an explicit (lightweight) social rule:

NO BACK-SEAT DRIVING. If you overhear people working through a problem, you shouldn't intermittently lob advice across the room. This can lead to the "too many cooks" problem, but more important, it can be rude and disruptive to half-participate in a conversation. This isn't to say you shouldn't help, offer advice, or join conversations. On the contrary, we encourage all those things. Rather, it just means that when you want to help out or work with others, you should fully engage and not just butt in sporadically.

From https://www.recurse.com/manual#sub-sec-social-rules

[mannykannot]

It is unfortunate that these things have to be pointed out, but they do.

[MaxfordAndSons]

Ironically you are violating another recurse center social rule in saying this: no feigning surprise, i.e. just because something is obvious to you doesn't mean it is obvious to anyone else, so don't act surprised when someone doesn't know or understand something.

[mannykannot]

Touché! - the surprise on my part is genuine, though maybe it should not have been.

[colechristensen]

Why? This is a particularly hard lesson to learn and everybody has to learn it, why not write it down in places?

[bluGill]

Because everyone has had their own experience that they have learned from. Most people who do this are not trying to be a troll. They really have learned A lesson and want to help you by sharing. The problem is few people have the context to know all the important issues, they just know they were burned badly one time and want to save you not realizing that the solution they found has downsides that will burn the other guy.

[generic_user]

Its even more obtuse whey back seat drivers exclaim, we should try and stop you from doing that! Its unsafe!