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The siren call of proving someone wrong on the internet strikes again.

what law is it again? where if you want the right answers to come out, spam people with wrong answers? lol

Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

From https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

I was really hoping you'd quote the wrong law. That would have been a sigma move.

Thing is, this law way predates the internet. It’s a human nature thing.

As a long time product manager, I’ve always found that the best way to get engineering engagement on a P1-to-me, P2-to-engineering issue is to propose my own solution. Someone is bound to solve the issue just to prove my solution wasn’t the right one.

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