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But that still fills search engine results with garbage I have to filter through. It's hard enough searching for solutions to problems when there's five StackOverflow answers with full of bad data and incorrections scattered through the comments, answers, and comments on answers.

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Not the writer or publisher's problem imo.

It's also not my problem when I throw my garbage into the river.

Interesting. I don't have any opinion on the incidence rate of low-quality technical tutorials, but I think this is the first time I've seen Google search results analogized as a fragile public good we all have a more-or-less moral responsibility to be good stewards of.

It's absolutely excellent way to frame the problem.

Exactly. Bad and/or wrong is worse than nothing at all.

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