Dude, who even knows.

18th March 2021

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Actually this reminds me of the Usenet/FTP/email-era “Frequently Asked Questions” document format. Which was, originally, a log of answered questions that kept getting asked, so answers could be resent without recomposing, or questioners could even...

Actually this reminds me of the Usenet/FTP/email-era “Frequently Asked Questions” document format.

Which was, originally, a log of answered questions that kept getting asked, so answers could be resent without recomposing, or questioners could even be pointed to a standing document.

By the time I came along in the mid-90s it had kinda become a rhetorical questioning technique for laying out explainers, with the Qs not really FA but projected by the author, this is how the game guide site ended up called GameFAQs

I think the “101” of “Feminism 101” can be clocked as an extension of that spirit too, maybe bring it back. Thing is it effectively requires a consensus.

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    A touch of “textbook thinking” in there as well.
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    Less Appeal to Authority, more ‘I won’t debate, you have to defeat the Academy, first.’
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    I’d say yeah, in a roundabout way. And a smokescreen. Telling someone, “this is facts. Don’t know the facts? You’re...
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