[afarrell]

1. That feedback is not really as high quality as asking an insightful question.

2. Doing this burns trust, especially if done deliberately.

[RNCTX]

Depends on your audience.

I can point to a handful of low-effort journos whose whole schtick is asking dumb questions on Twitter so that the would-be know-it-alls can post "well, actually" to them in the replies.

By virtue of the engagement numbers they clearly love it, and come back for more slop every day.

[cyberpunkdyst]

#1 Requires some knowledge to do, which can be hard. I do agree that #2 is very true and indeed what I mean by bein stupid is ”exposing your own stupidity/lack of knowledge” rather than playing stupid.