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Ryan SchultzA programming life hack:
Joshua Byrd@ryanschultz this is why we can't have nice things. i hate that this is human nature
@ryanschultz well, maybe reddit nature
Femme Malheureuse@ryanschultz Oh wow, I wish I'd thought to manipulate mansplaining like this for useful purposes when I was short on time and under resourced.
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johnnysilverhand@deivudesu @ryanschultz this is perfect 🤣
Chip_Unicorn@ryanschultz I absolutely use something similar to design anything.
I create a design that meets my needs, let interested people read it, and they tell me just how dumb I am for not having considered X.
A. Lizard@ryanschultz did 'wrong answer' posts on Usenet
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Siff@ryanschultz Now we expect #ChatGPT to start doing that… O, wait it already does the incorrect answer part! 😃
Giddey_up@ryanschultz This is brilliant advice and a profound insight into human nature!
Relee the Squirrel@ryanschultz I used to do that on World of Warcraft when it was new, in Barrens Chat if someone wasn't getting an answer and I didn't know. I'd give a wrong answer. Folks would stop all the Chuck Norris memes right away and they'd get three or more correct and helpful answers.
David McFarlane@ryanschultz Not just for programming questions. I did this once in an Urban Legends forum on Usenet to get others to provide real answers to a question that someone else posted.
skua@ryanschultz
Multiple attestations that this works.
Can only think that this works because of overly early weaning from breastfeeding and the resulting psycho-social trauma.
Ivan Sagalaev 
@ryanschultz I remember a long time ago the common wisdom was that to get an answer on the Internet you need to piss someone off. Like, instead of asking how to tune a firewall in Linux you need to post a rant about how it is utterly impossible to do in this shitty system :-)
This seems like a modern variant of that!
elly@ryanschultz often used a version of this method to get programming help on IRC in the aughts. important to have a feminine sounding username for best results 👍
Chio@ryanschultz teachers also use this technique - intentionally make a mistake to see if students can correct them 👍
Mike Berring@ryanschultz This is brilliant
and well played, sir
and well played, sir
Shield Maiden@ryanschultz Oooh, "prechez le faux pour savoir la vérité." A French tactic I learned about years ago.
d.e.brown@ryanschultz dialectical misdirection
NSKE@ryanschultz "Does anyone know any alternatives for X?" - tumbleweed.
"Does anyone know how to do *thing* with X?" - dozens of replies saying "just use Y or Z"
"Does anyone know how to do *thing* with X?" - dozens of replies saying "just use Y or Z"
LPS@ryanschultz hilarious!
💉😷🌿🇺🇦🇺🇳🇪🇺Oiselarius (he/him)@ryanschultz @projektmyra social engineering…are you a Nigerian prince?
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jell@ryanschultz Humans were a mistake.
Sijmen@ryanschultz Now I wonder how well this works on StackOverflow
podfeet@ryanschultz Annie won the Internet today.
Schreibmax@ryanschultz super smart 
Resuna@ryanschultz I used to do this on Usenet for questions I had about early Windows, except I could usually find someone else with the same problem because it was Windows so I only needed to do stage two.
Edit: to avoid having to actually come up with an incorrect answer I simply stated that it was impossible.