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by EricE 2495 days ago
Might be valuable if it reacted the same way in all environments (not always the case). And if someone answered faster (correctly - without sending them down an unrelated rabbit hole too!) then they could have found the answer out by just experimenting.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a huge fan of community support, but sometimes it's faster to just try things and see how the systems reacts.

Not to say you can't do both in parallel; and they might have - you aren't going to detail everything you did in a writeup like this.

As others said, I really enjoy reading write-ups like these. Who needs fiction when you have real world mysteries to solve?