Damn near every time a subject that isn't software that I have good personal knowledge of comes up there's I notice a few big grayed out walls of well thought out and nuanced text.
The worst cases seem to be when there's an article (seems like it's always on Medium) about some complicated multi-part technical thing going wrong, a top level comment slings blame around as if they know exactly where to sling it and uses a PopSci understanding of the subject matter to justify it. Then someone who actually knows the relevant industry says "well actually it's a little more nuanced", proceeds to explain and then gets down-voted and flagged for it. Seems like a great way to send the message that technical knowledge and experience is not welcome here if it's going to go against whatever the convenient narrative is. What it definitely doesn't do is instill trust in comments about things I am less familiar in.
Nobody wants to hear from the guy who admits he doesn't know everything. They want the opinion from the guy who is still on mount stupid and knows just enough to think he know everything about the subject.
I like to think I've gotten over myself pretty fast and will now freely admit that I know nothing and suck at everything.
Tongue-in-cheek of course, there's no need to downplay your own abilities and knowledge. But if anything, I'm no longer feeling like I'm missing out in the rat race. I'm missing out on the whole AI / machine learning thing but that's all right because it just doesn't pique my interest.
