I think that’s less due to a community-accepted rule and more because you can’t get called out on not having the background reading if you don’t demonstrate that you lack it.
It’s still a good guideline for newbies to adhere to, though.
Well, I think it’s that you don’t need the background reading if you don’t demonstrate that you lack it. I don’t know much about brain surgery either, but nobody’s going to yell at me for that if I just want to read some articles about it or watch someone else discuss it. The problem that’s caused by newbies not reading the sequences is that they take up space in conversations without making valuable conversations. If they’re not doing that, it doesn’t matter what they merely know.
I think that’s less due to a community-accepted rule and more because you can’t get called out on not having the background reading if you don’t demonstrate that you lack it.
It’s still a good guideline for newbies to adhere to, though.
Well, I think it’s that you don’t need the background reading if you don’t demonstrate that you lack it. I don’t know much about brain surgery either, but nobody’s going to yell at me for that if I just want to read some articles about it or watch someone else discuss it. The problem that’s caused by newbies not reading the sequences is that they take up space in conversations without making valuable conversations. If they’re not doing that, it doesn’t matter what they merely know.