Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions?

credo@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 426 points –

It’s kinda how you read the name, innit?

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That is a stupid question

There are no stupid questions

"There are no stupid questions. Only stupid children......stupid stupid children....."

Just like my 3rd grade teacher used to say.

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I feel like this communith is mostly suited for asking questions about things you feel like you ought to know, because everybody seems to know it naturally.

It can range from "How do I properly clean my foreskin?" to "what is ffmpeg and why is everybody using it?", but not "Who's the current president of Turkey?" nor "How do I calculate the circumference of a sphere?"

It's noy questions that can be answered by a "simple google search", but questions that might be answered by a single google search, but only if you know what to search for.

What is foreskin, and why is everybody using it?

Im just going to sit this gen out and wait for fiveskin.

Good idea, is it on the same release schedule as fivehead?

Most jewish men aren't

Nor most Americans (Jewish or not), for some reason.

can range from “How do I properly clean my foreskin?” to “what is ffmpeg and why is everybody using it?”, but not “Who’s the current president of Turkey?” nor “How do I calculate the circumference of a sphere?”

I am impressed that you have four closely related questions right off the top of your head!

You've asked in the right place my friend

No stupid questions.

No. Stupid questions.

No stupid! Questions!

No, stupid. Questions.

No! Stupid! Questions?

No shoes, no shirt, no stupid questions.

No stupid questions beyond this point.

There are no stupid questions.

We ain't judging no stupid questions.

I think you're supposed to ask questions here that people elsewhere might think are stupid questions. The idea is that in this community, there are no stupid questions.

So that means that for the most part it's only stupid questions being asked here?

No, because there are no stupid questions.

You are supposed to ask questions that might be viewed as stupid, and you should receive an answer without judgement.

If you do that though you will get fucked and asked to install Linux.

It means that no question will be considered stupid and your intelligence/experise will not be judged. So feel free to as any question as long as you're sincere and serious.

Yes, but that's why there is a sidebar.

Yes but.. the word stupid is not in the sidebar (other than the community name). I did check first! :)

How dare you do an appropriate amount of reading of the community rules before posting.

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The mere fact that we're answering your question provides sufficient context to clarify the group's intentions, no?

It's impossible to ask a stupid question here, actually. Try it!

Here, I'll do one:

******** ?

hunter2

Ok, what'd I miss? I don't understand the reference.

It's a rather old reference...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2

Wow! Can't believe I've never seen it before, considering I've been in the internet since 1994...

RIP bash.org

WHAT
When did it die? That's so sad

Fairly recently, I believe. I think it was earlier this year.

There's some mirror/archive sites already set up with all the old content, though.

Well it's a series of tubes - you might have been in a different one to bash.org (rip).

Glad I could bring this one to you :)

Welcome to the Fediverse.

what's the first browser you used?

I was 7 when we got our modem (I still have the packaging for it!), but browser? I think it was Netscape, but that might also have been a year later, for all I know. If you want a photo of the modem box because you don't believe me, let me know.

I'll bite:

Is hunter2 a strong password?

not any more

Tbh it never was. It was practically as weak as a password could get, even before becoming a meme.

Thanks to Unicode, 𝓱𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻2 is a very strong password now.

You are supposed to ask stupid questions, but you actually can't, because there are no stupid questions.

Nonono, you are not allowed to ask stupid questions, but since there are no stupid questions, you can ask away.

Yes, you should ask both stupid and non-stupid questions here. Only thing, it has to be a honest question and abide by the rules... No trolling, flaming or baiting.

No, stupid. This place is just for questions in general. Unqualified. No adjectives. No stupid**,** questions.

You can try to ask stupid questions, but according to the title of this community you will never succeed

You ask questions here that you might feel stupid asking; questions you figure most people probably know, but you haven't figured out.

are all questions asked here stupid questions? Or is that all questions asked here are about stupid things? Or is it perhaps that no questions are stupid, and we are just asking questions to gain knowledge?

Questions, questions, questions. Who has the answer?

I do. It's the last one.

you're the answer? Or are you the question, and if you're the question, which one are you? There are three of them.

in case you didn't get the joke, im referencing the very last line of the post, it's the same structure as the beginning of it, amusingly enough.

It is to be interpreted as "no questions here will be considered stupid".

Sure, there are exceptions, but most good-faith questions are OK, especially if it's something that you feel you should already know, or something you sim0ly fail to understand.