The ONLY misinformation in the hint is the idea that it's new to 10.6, which anyway I'd regard more as the editor's job to check for than the hinter's. Rubbish! I agree the quality of (some of) the hints here has dropped, but this isn't an example of that. I'd suggest the rudeness is just an emotional (possible subconscious) reaction to a perception of a recent flood of questionable hints on the site. For such a short hint, it really packs a lot of misinformation punch!Īll that being said, I acknowledge that a lot of the corrective comments could have been phrased more tactfully. The (implied) claim that the author has mentioned all the other ways to get the information (which they fell far short of doing, as is obvious from all the "mean" comments). The claim that the behavior is new to 10.6. This particular hint contains a lot of misinformation. I've been reading the site for nearly a decade (has it really been around that long?) and it does seem like the quality of the hints has taken a distinct downward turn this last year or so. Whenever I see misinformation in a hint, I feel obliged to point it out so that Rob will hopefully add a correction to the hint (or at least readers of the hint will have a chance to be informed by the comments, assuming they read that far…). I don't think anyone is being a snob - the reason I (and I presume many other members) love this site so much is the high quality of the information here.
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