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by greggman3 2165 days ago
I've found this extremely frustrating writing tutorials. Let's say I have 40 of them. Every few days someone will jump into #35 and complain they don't get it even though it lists right at the start that to understand it you need to read #21, #25, and #31. And #21 will say to understand first read #5, #6, #7 etc... But they'll skip all of that and then get upset that not everything was explained. It's very frustrating.

I don't think anyone would jump to chapter 35 of a textbook and be upset it requires reading previous chapters but in HTML they apparently do get upset about it all the time.

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Maybe you should call your posts chapters too?