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[redbird]

There are times it feels weird offering advice to strangers, or even near-strangers. With all the disclaimers in the world, and my best good sense applied to the matter, I just don't know enough. I don't know the situation in detail and, at least as important, I don't know them: I don't know the strengths or weaknesses they may be bringing to the situation.

Still, I do my best, and I figure most of them know enough to take my relative ignorance into account. (Sometimes I state it explicitly.)

But it feels weirder when it's in someone's own journal: if someone posts to a community asking for advice or information, they're probably expecting responses from strangers.

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[trinker.livejournal.com]

I know this from both directions.

And when I ask in my own journal, I'm aware that there's all sorts of skew going on.