It’s not that often that mistakes are unambiguous and uncontroversial once pointed out. A lot of the time, the question isn’t “do I want to point out his mistake so he can do better next time”, but “do I want to commit to having a probably fruitless debate about this”.
It’s not that often that mistakes are unambiguous and uncontroversial once pointed out. A lot of the time, the question isn’t “do I want to point out his mistake so he can do better next time”, but “do I want to commit to having a probably fruitless debate about this”.
Do you think that every time a mistake would, in fact, be unambiguous and uncontroversial, it should be pointed out?
If so, do you think more downvotes should be explained?
From my experience it seems like the first quote implies the second.
I think this site is already extremely good at calling out unambiguous and uncontroversial mistakes.