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> This is gatekeeping 101

What? How?

> Some people are just starting out in security/software engineering and things like this might not be obvious to them

That's fair enough. But I wished these beginners then didn't make claims like "security tools cannot be installed like this, it's insecure", and we would all be better off.

Either you know what you're talking about and you share your knowledge. Or, you listen and ask questions in order to eventually know what you're talking about.




>> This is gatekeeping 101

> What? How? In many hobby communities, whenever new people ask questions, which are obvious to the more experienced people, some more experienced people become hostile/use more hostile language/say things like "you should know this wtf" etc. A fairly recent example I saw on Reddit of what I mean https://www.reddit.com/r/AdeptusMechanicus/comments/h7s5gw/g...

> That's fair enough. But I wished these beginners then didn't make claims like "security tools cannot be installed like this, it's insecure", and we would all be better off.

I understand where you are coming from but this is an eternal struggle with any profession.

> Either you know what you're talking about and you share your knowledge. Or, you listen and ask questions in order to eventually know what you're talking about.

Yes and no, this is Dunning-Kruger effect quite often https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://imgur.com/r/psychology/jbo2gy5




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