But I go to the comments and there's 150 people who all know every intimate detail of this technology already. Experts in the subject.
I think most of you all are faking it
My current frustration is links to blog posts. I'm starting to ask myself "who is this person and why should I care about their opinion?" It's one thing to link research, or even a book, but a few of the blogs lately.... The topic sounds interesting, but the content sometimes makes me realize it's just some dudes blog and not professional advice. I'd kinda like some kind of (opinion) tag on those.
The truly interesting blogs are those who are written by known subject matter experts with success in their field and something interesting to say such as original research or personal observation resulting from what they are an expert in.
So while I found a post there or there in a forum, generally speaking it was from kids who was projecting their next 3 years.
So we live in an era where everyone is sharing their life, experience and knowledge but nothing is reachable/discoverable, or so much gatekeeped that it's only shared to follower(s) and the platform.
The world is huge. We're all traversing different areas of interest and expertise.
It makes sense that there are lots of different types of domain experts in our field. This is a great place where they tend to congregate together.
There is a lot of that of course; but ...
It is also the nature of the medium (i.e. short pithy comments) which makes one come across as an "Expert" without the writer having intended it.
The way i deal with it is to treat comments strictly as data/pointers/advice which i then look up in some detailed book on that domain. In other words, don't take anything at face value but do your own study.
Finally it also seems to be the case that HN has more exceptions to your statement than is found at other sites i.e. we have more outliers showing up here.
I think you're insecure about the extent of things you know nothing or so little about.
It's normal but not an attractive trait to project.
Not here. I have finite fakery capacity, and I need 100% of it for my day job.