{"id":3183,"date":"2012-05-02T07:13:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T04:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/2012\/05\/02\/the-problem-with-internet-knowledge-is-this-people-dont-know-how-to-ask-questions-the-smart-way-so-rather-than-presenting-the-problem-th\/"},"modified":"2012-05-02T07:13:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T04:13:05","slug":"the-problem-with-internet-knowledge-is-this-people-dont-know-how-to-ask-questions-the-smart-way-so-rather-than-presenting-the-problem-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/2012\/05\/02\/the-problem-with-internet-knowledge-is-this-people-dont-know-how-to-ask-questions-the-smart-way-so-rather-than-presenting-the-problem-th\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with Internet knowledge is this: people don&#8217;t know How To Ask Questions The Smart Way, so rather than presenting the problem th&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jani<\/strong> The problem with Internet knowledge is this: people don't know How To Ask Questions The Smart Way, so rather than presenting the problem they're trying to solve (&quot;how do I achieve X?&quot;) they present their own attempts at a solution (&quot;how do I do Y so that I can achieve X&quot;), and still get answers from helpful others to their real problem (&quot;you can achieve X by doing Z&quot;).<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this is that search engines (wrongly) pick the issue represented by the initial post as the question (&quot;how do I do Y?&quot;), resulting in frustration for someone genuinely interested in answers to _that_ question rather than solving an OP's true problem. Just google &quot;how do I do Y&quot; and you'll find a million threads supposedly about Y, but immediately derailing to &quot;don't do Y, do Z instead&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jani The problem with Internet knowledge is this: people don&#8217;t know How To Ask Questions The Smart Way, so rather than presenting the problem they&#8217;re trying to solve (&quot;how do I achieve X?&quot;) they present their own attempts at a solution (&quot;how do I do Y so that I can achieve X&quot;), and still get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nordeilysta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kutamiiluu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}