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  • snooggums@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldDon't reply "just Google it"
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    4 days ago

    When asking about the Beatles, are they asking about those still living or all of the founding members? Sice many bands have changed members over time, could they be asking about the time in the band or their age in years?

    Suse, this was easy for the Beatles since they had a single lineup and are popular enough that all of that is easy to find. But it is a good example of a simple question that could be asking different things based on context and even if they get an answer it isn’t necessarily what they are looking for, but they didn’t know how to ask. Follow up questions are possible when interacting with others who may point out missing context, but not for search engines.

    Also, kind of funny that you are an instance with ‘discuss’ in the name and you are opposed to discussion about easy to search things.



  • snooggums@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldDon't reply "just Google it"
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    4 days ago

    For the last decade, the vast majority of helpful results for obscure things has been reddit posts of users asking the exact same question. Usually the person answering knows some context that the person asking isn’t aware of needing to include in their question, which is why they couldn’t find it on their own. Heck, a lot of the time I was missing the same piece of information!

    Without someone answering the ‘easy’ question, there wouldn’t have been any results that were clear answers to those questions.



  • My absolute favorite videos for car repairs were some shade tree mechanics who just recorded what they were doing and talking through the steps. No fancy lighting setups, no separate camera person. Just explaining and sharing knowledge for something that I couldn’t figure out by reading words because the written word was just ‘lightly hammer’ and they showed the angles and explained where the parts were frequently getting caught.

    You are a hero.