I think there’s a difference between making a claim (then I’m with you – provide a source, goddamnit) and getting asked a question where it’s obvious the asker hasn’t even tried finding out shit on their own. In the latter I think the card is right. I’m not your proxy for google.
I do both. When it’s not something I pull from memory I’ll say how I found it and also provide what I found. Which isn’t about telling people that they shouldn’t ask, but rather to teach them for when they can’t.
I will be eternally pissed at people that don’t because then I find that question on google 5 years later and they’re telling me to google it which I did…
Counterpoint: A lot of people legitimately don’t know how to find out shit on their own and their learning style is rooted in having teachers and tutors help them along to understanding. Needing someone to teach them how to find out shit on their own might legitimately be part of the path that they need help with. If you genuinely don’t understand which sources are valuable or how to form the question into a search engine, doing it yourself may not be illuminating at all. Some people don’t grow from “reading the fucking manual” because it’s all too beyond their basic understanding for it to be valuable to them.
I think people take for granted that finding solutions on the internet is absolutely a learned skill.
I think there’s a difference between making a claim (then I’m with you – provide a source, goddamnit) and getting asked a question where it’s obvious the asker hasn’t even tried finding out shit on their own. In the latter I think the card is right. I’m not your proxy for google.
I do both. When it’s not something I pull from memory I’ll say how I found it and also provide what I found. Which isn’t about telling people that they shouldn’t ask, but rather to teach them for when they can’t.
I will be eternally pissed at people that don’t because then I find that question on google 5 years later and they’re telling me to google it which I did…
Counterpoint: A lot of people legitimately don’t know how to find out shit on their own and their learning style is rooted in having teachers and tutors help them along to understanding. Needing someone to teach them how to find out shit on their own might legitimately be part of the path that they need help with. If you genuinely don’t understand which sources are valuable or how to form the question into a search engine, doing it yourself may not be illuminating at all. Some people don’t grow from “reading the fucking manual” because it’s all too beyond their basic understanding for it to be valuable to them.
I think people take for granted that finding solutions on the internet is absolutely a learned skill.
Especially these days, when disinformation is freely accessible, and facts are behind paywalls.
I can find a million conflicting articles about what a study says, or I can pay out the nose for access to the actual study, for example.
Except, when you Google something, the best answers are (or at least used to be) most often Reddit comments provided by people who aren’t douchebags.
Does it need to be repeated over and over, though? The answer is there.
Then don’t bother answering