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[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 48 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Absolutely not. I'd rather have no documentation and start from scratch than be gaslit by an entire team of people telling me that the very obviously wrong documentation is correct and has been correct for 30 years

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 14 hours ago

I can name a few examples of this

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think there's a difference between bad and wrong. Wrong documentation is incorrect. Bad documentation isn't really incorrect, it's just poorly executedb and mostly unhelpful.

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, incorrect documentation is clearly bad, so...

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Seemed more like the problem was the gaslighting than the documentation.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Wrong documentation is still a pretty big problem, even without the gaslighting. Incomplete documentation is better than none; incorrect documentation is not.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That documentation sounds like marriage.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 14 hours ago
[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 20 hours ago

Well also like sex, when it's really bad it's worse than nothing.