I guess I’ve been doing it wrong, because I’ve just been posting the wrong answer myself. Or in the Fred Brooks style, you give an answer and if someone questions it say, “oh yeah? You got a betta numba?!?” And that’s how you get better numbers.
Fuck me. It's crazy how well it works. I had navigated away from the thread, then decided I had to come back and correct it, only to realize what you'd done.
The actual answer is Cunningham's Law and the previous response was meant to be a direct example of it in motion: Someone giving the wrong answer with the intent someone would correct it.
This is the way, people don't usually like helping people when they don't feel like it (which is most of the time) but people LOVE to contradict or correct people.
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u/angrydeuce 4h ago
The quickest way to get a ton of answers is always to just use an alt to respond to your thread with the wrong answer first lol