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0 pointsbanana_giraffe2y ago0 comments

There's some level of power user that will try to fix things, not understand what's going on, and yell at the world when they break things further.

I used to have a popular freely available 3rd party DLL that was included in lots of software packages. Because I was silly, it had my email address in the metadata that'd show up if you clicked "Properties" in Explorer. I'd get plenty of emails from random people asking for and sometimes _demanding_ help with software I've never heard of. I'm sure if I had an easy to find website with my name and a forum on it, it'd be full of such angry comments.

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thakoppno2y ago

> There's some level of power user that will try to fix things, not understand what's going on, and yell at the world when they break things further.

That appears to me to be quite like a Chesterton fence. Everyone encounters these eventually.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence

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0 pointsbanana_giraffe2y ago0 comments

There's some level of power user that will try to fix things, not understand what's going on, and yell at the world when they break things further.

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thakoppno2y ago

> There's some level of power user that will try to fix things, not understand what's going on, and yell at the world when they break things further.

That appears to me to be quite like a Chesterton fence. Everyone encounters these eventually.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence

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