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It appears to me that recently there is a growing number of people who first ask for help and then dispute the points they don't like to hear. I have a really hard time to understand this kind of behavior. When someone, by their own admission, has never dealt with a certain topic before, how can they reasonably believe they know better than someone who has written thousands of messages here over many years? The latter usually equating to a long professional experience in the field.
To make an example: While we are all sometimes wrong about details, why would I "simply" question something from e.g. @jgreco, @danb35, @Patrick M. Hausen, @Ericloewe , @sretalla , or one of the many others experts here , except I had hard experience otherwise myself? I have seen the same behavior from junior software developers, who believe e.g. that extensive branching is better than trunk-based development. And they manage to dismiss the fact that organizations like Amazon, Google, and Facebook do this and for a very good reason.
In a job setting I can understand that people want to prove themselves. Although ignoring advice from more experienced colleagues is not a clever approach for this in my opinion. But why this happens in a forum is something I would really like to understand.
Any thoughts? Thank you.
To make an example: While we are all sometimes wrong about details, why would I "simply" question something from e.g. @jgreco, @danb35, @Patrick M. Hausen, @Ericloewe , @sretalla , or one of the many others experts here , except I had hard experience otherwise myself? I have seen the same behavior from junior software developers, who believe e.g. that extensive branching is better than trunk-based development. And they manage to dismiss the fact that organizations like Amazon, Google, and Facebook do this and for a very good reason.
In a job setting I can understand that people want to prove themselves. Although ignoring advice from more experienced colleagues is not a clever approach for this in my opinion. But why this happens in a forum is something I would really like to understand.
Any thoughts? Thank you.