[yobbo]

The problem is not that that work environments are cartoonishly toxic, but that 95% of people will implicitly down-rank people who ask stupid questions or turn out wrong.

So, we can encourage people and act accommodating but it is just politeness. Everyone present is silently adjusting their expectations of others.

[PartiallyTyped]

I immediately down-rank anyone who provides simplistic or “obvious” but utterly wrong solutions to difficult problems instead of trying to understand why a person chose the solution they did.

The problem isn’t being wrong, per se, it’s being wrong without entertaining that possibility.