in reply to To help not to misguide

levels of tech background, but at least be nice not to answer questions that one is not familiar with.
Why? To avoid potentially giving a wrong answer? Wrong answers are given all the time even when you're completely familiar questions.

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Re^2: To help not to misguide
by phaylon (Curate) on Jan 04, 2006 at 15:57 UTC
    Ack. I think the better solution would be to ask people to state if they're not really sure. But then, I often see 'IIRC's, 'AFAIK's, '(untested)'s and other marks that tell the questioner if this is a hint, a suggestion, a solution or whatever. In fact I think PM is quite good at self-regulating.
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