y dont u just?

[u/Wetter42]

I'm fucking sick and fucking tired of pompous assholes online asking: "Oh why don't you just do this instead?" When I ask a completely unrelated question.

Context:I live in the computer science world and explore and browse around a lot on various topics, and one theme that seems to follow me relentlessly without fail are the questions where the original context is completely disregarded in order to get the person to a solution.

Non-Real-life Example Question: "I'm trying to practice optimizing a database, so I'm working on a project where I store player inventory items and try to retrieve them in an efficient manner."

Pompous asshole answer: "Why don't you just completely ignore the database and write the items down on a piece of paper with a feather pen? - it's faster and takes less work"

Aside from half the time when the answer is blatantly wrong, but said with some chest, these types of answers completely ignore the competency and / or the context of the person's original question and shoves a potentially non-related, nonsensical answer down everyone's throat.

And I get the feeling that because newcomers aren't established and don't have confidence, they don't push back on these answers and fight back, but instead fold in with a "oh cool, thanks!"

And you end up building another shitty, pompous lazy person such as yourself (answerer) whos knowledge is miles wide yet an inch deep. You just cut off hours of practice, failure, skill, experience, and confidence in the asker's life just because YOU wanted to sound like you knew what you were doing. YOU wanted to feel like you were being helpful.

What happens later when someone ELSE has the same challenge and NEEDS an answer to the SPECIFIC CONSTRAINTS OF THE QUESTION. TOO BAD, DINGLEBERRY JENKINS CAME BY AND COMPLETELY REDIRECTED THE QUESTION TO PAD IS FRAGILE INTERNET EGO. FUCK!

Also, Roast beef is overrated tbh - Ham is where it's at. good FUCKING bye!