Question 2: How sure are you that the idea makes sense, that it would work, and that it’s actually feasible?
Question 3: What have you done to check and improve your idea before you wrote this post?
When you make a post that says “hey guys, what you’re doing is definitely wrong, here’s the totally obvious thing to do instead, and I’ll bet that you never thought of this, let alone figured out a problem with it”, you’d better have excellent answers to the above questions.
If not, I suggest rewriting the post in the form “hey guys, it seems to me like the obvious thing to do is this; is there a reason why we’re not doing that?”, which tends to go over a lot better with most human beings.
I really didn’t mean to be that critical. I just wanted to put an idea I couldn’t see any holes in out there and see if anyone else saw any obvious problems.
Maybe it’s a useful idea. If not, then at least I won’t waste any more time thinking about it. Either way, I’m going to lay it out and you guys can see what you think.
Question 1: How long ago did you have this idea?
Question 2: How sure are you that the idea makes sense, that it would work, and that it’s actually feasible?
Question 3: What have you done to check and improve your idea before you wrote this post?
When you make a post that says “hey guys, what you’re doing is definitely wrong, here’s the totally obvious thing to do instead, and I’ll bet that you never thought of this, let alone figured out a problem with it”, you’d better have excellent answers to the above questions.
If not, I suggest rewriting the post in the form “hey guys, it seems to me like the obvious thing to do is this; is there a reason why we’re not doing that?”, which tends to go over a lot better with most human beings.
Upvoted. I should remember to express my critique in a more constructive way, like this.
I really didn’t mean to be that critical. I just wanted to put an idea I couldn’t see any holes in out there and see if anyone else saw any obvious problems.