I disagree, people should use the correct tools to achieve the outcome they are looking for. If you want a basic answer to a common question, you should search for material that has already answered that. Asking it in Lemmy or another social media site is wasting the time of people who could use that time to answer questions that aren’t already answered or have nuance to them that current discussion would help.
The question itself isn’t stupid, it’s a very good question, but asking other people instead of looking it up is stupid.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I don’t think you know what ‘stupid’ means, you should look it up.
If asking questions of other people on Lemmy is stupid, answering the question is even more stupid.
You don’t know the outcome they were looking for, it’s stupid to pretend otherwise.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
I think I know exactly what stupid means.
If you had to remove a screw to access a battery compartment, and reached for a hammer. I’d call that stupid.
If you need to know what temperature to cook a steak to for it to be healthy and called the police to ask. I’d call that stupid.
There are ways to get things done that are generally accepted as “reasonable” and asking Social media users to answer a question that 30 seconds of reading Wikipedia would answer is clearly the wrong tool for the job.