Seriously guys, I'm really getting sick of this. Yes, it's important to learn how to research, but remember when they invented the calculator and the teacher kept telling you how important it was to learn to do it on paper, and yet...there's a fucking calculator?
This place is our calculator. Nobody is going to take anyone else's words at face value, true. And we shouldn't. But the truth is not everyone knows what everyone else knows and we're not going to learn what everyone knows if we keep sticking our noses in the air and saying "look it up yourself."
You looked it up apparently, do us all a favor and show us where you looked. It will help get us all where we need to be a hell of a lot faster.
This raises a good point. Some people like to be contrarians, or like a kid who just asks why to ask why (or glowies/paid shills could be doing it). If so, ignore their question.
If they are sincere, they should ask with humility and sincerity. We should help those people.
It’s like an etiquette
This. I help if it's a genuine need/question. Problem is you get some talking out their ass and then get indignantly butthurt when corrected and demand, not ask, that you give proof. Fuck those people. I self educated and so can they.