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by dualboot 1093 days ago
Just want to throw out there that people should be allowed to be wrong. Especially if they've shown the capacity to recognize their mistakes and own them.

Yeah, we cringe but who ever actually learns something without making some mistakes along the way?

If we spent all of our time dealing with the anxiety of trying to never be wrong -- most of us wouldn't be able to function.

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Most people who “create content” don’t know much and just do the minimum to get something out. This scales from tiktok to YouTube to popular nonfiction… honestly even a lot of academic research.

It’s not about people being wrong. There’s a problem at every level with how willing people are to publish before they’ve done enough to be sure that their information is good.

Being wrong should be celebrated. Publishing for the rewards of publishing instead of the quality of the work is rightly shamed.

Oh sure, most of them are inquisitive and thoughtful, they just aren't "into" Linux the same way some others are. I hope I didn't come off too judgemental.