• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Yeah, I have to back you up here. This person’s alleged experience is so completely divorced from my experience working on PCSX2 and tells me they have no idea what they’re talking about. We have to answer questions over and over and over again, but usually there’s a command to quickly give a canned answer.

    And the questions aren’t repeated because there’s no way for users to search (there is); it’s because it’s usually faster in that kind of environment to just ask and because dedicated help forums are a form of selection bias. You’re generally going to get more thought-out questions from users who use dedicated, thread-based support forums because either a) they needed to make an account just to ask that question, b) they already have an account and so are more dedicated than the average user, or c) all the others who didn’t want to make that investment either just gave up or found the answer some other way.