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To those advocating to hold your tongue if you don't know the answer to a certainty, a pox. Seriously, my questions receive so few answers, and the answers I do get are incorrect so often (not necessarily usual, but often) that anyone advocating a reduction is doing everyone a disservice. Often an incorrect or incomplete answer gives me enough to go on to make progress or outright solve the issue.

What you have to offer may not be complete or correct. But it may provide another way of thinking that helps someone who reads it. It may be corrected by others, which, in turn, helps both you and the original poster. And it may actually be complete and correct.

If you're unsure, say so. There's no shame in learning, and no shame in not understanding fully. Simply be truthful. "I'm not sure, but my understanding is..." There are plenty of monks more than happy to correct your understanding if it is incomplete.

What I've found is that the fastest way to learn something is to teach it. This is not the other way around. It is not that you need to learn something to teach it, it's that you need to teach it to learn it. I "taught" C++ and STL to fellow students in university. Not a course, but to help teammates on our projects. After sleeping through my Digital Signal Processing course, I practically taught it to fellow students in the days leading up to the exam - they attributed mere passing to my teaching, I attributed my 8 (on a Stanine scale - "A-") to teaching them, and having to deal with all of their questions, not just my own. And that's what this site is for - I was "pretty good" at perl when I joined in 2005. I think I'm "much better" now (feel free to form your own opinion, I'm sure others have :-> ). I ask questions when I'm at an impasse. I answer questions to hone up and reinforce it.

Please. You'll be glad you did. :-)

Fair warning, though. Poxed monks may give you --'s when you get it wrong. You might lose a few XP here and there. Don't sweat it. Er... I mean, don't sweat it. :-S The XP you gain will more than outweigh it, especially over time. And it'll be a shorter time if you involve yourself than if you don't.

Update: clarification italicised above, as it seems chromatic may have taken it too literally.


In reply to Re: To Answer, Or Not To Answer.... by Tanktalus
in thread To Answer, Or Not To Answer.... by koolgirl

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