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[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week 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

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week 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 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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

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

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

I can name a few examples of this

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

That documentation sounds like marriage.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

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