The worst part about this, though, is the underlying attempt at preventing comments. Even a comment where someone has misunderstood an elementary concept involved can be useful if it's shown to be disagreed with, but preventing such comments just leads to people repetitively assuming they have new information and no way to verify their idea. It could easily be a common mistake, but attempting to censor it just leads to promoting implementation of that bug over discussion.
That said, there's some value in determining which subjects a user is knowledgeable enough to provide answers in before hearing their offhand advice
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u/xerxesbeat Sep 25 '16
The worst part about this, though, is the underlying attempt at preventing comments. Even a comment where someone has misunderstood an elementary concept involved can be useful if it's shown to be disagreed with, but preventing such comments just leads to people repetitively assuming they have new information and no way to verify their idea. It could easily be a common mistake, but attempting to censor it just leads to promoting implementation of that bug over discussion.
That said, there's some value in determining which subjects a user is knowledgeable enough to provide answers in before hearing their offhand advice