I’m sorry dude but if it’s going to take me two hours of sorting through documentation to find a feature in the software I’m using and I know someone one Slack message away could point me to it in 30 seconds, I’m going to ask them. You’re basically making a case against any sort of technical collaboration outside of one where everyone comes to the table with all of their knowledge set and prepared to look up everything themselves. That is very inefficient and simply not how people operate, not even you do that
No, it's more like a basic case where you put five minutes into it and if you can't get there in that time frame, then you ask someone. But I am asking for the five minutes of work.
Why do you operate under the assumption that people haven’t spent a few minutes looking for it? In my experience, most people are not trying to waste my time. Perhaps that is different for you, but I find that unlikely.
Additionally, when it’s not your domain knowledge, research is more difficult and time consuming. It can be difficult to even know where to begin. Someone new to media production, for instance, wouldn’t know the major forums to check off hand. Someone had to tell me about dvxuser, reduser, cinema5d, etc.
We learn through a combination of our own effort efforts and the help of others. Otherwise why would we even have school?
