Originally Posted by DirkW

Now this is really getting off-topic, but once more:
I wouldn't call myself particularly thin skinned. It's just there's so many people out there these days are giving wrong (or least extremely incomplete) information, not only in RC but in much more important fields as well. Luckily we only have to deal with RC here. Still this site is quite full with people who scramble to drop their semi-knowledge (at best), their purely fanboy-based opinions as facts as fast as they can, and wherever they can (I'm sure every regular user has at least 3-5 names that come up in his mind, when thinking about that). And it is getting worse all the time - and somewhat annoying, too. It often feels like no one cares about facts any more, no one does at least a minimum of research before posting anything. And if nobody else ever fact checks and corrects these, this hobby will only go down (further?). That's why people who are full of BS (not the case here, before anyone gets to the wrong conclusions) get called out for it, the stupider their claims and the more they double down on it, the harsher the call outs get. We've all seen some previous members who were like that and there's still some left, who just haven't managed to insult a moderator yet. Yet, even mildly and well-meant misinformation should be corrected, so that everyone can have easy access to the real facts. Not harshly, but never the less, still corrected. And that's all I did. I didn't know anything about that book (nor do I really care much), but I instantly knew both "authors'" names (out of two) were spelled wrong (again, I'm not hunting every typo, but for names presented as authors of a book that is recommend, I think a little more care is needed - plus with people's names, it's also a bit of a respect thing, but that's just my personal opinion). And guess what: just to make sure, I still checked their correct spelling before i wrote that answer (again: a minimum of diligence, it's not that hard). So, while the information was still not perfect after that, it was yet improved a little (a lot, if they'd truly been the authors - the fact that they're not, only makes the original post worse - not that I tried to help correcting it, but you act like I'm the one who messed up here).

What did you do (initially!) to improve it, though? You knew that the book wasn't even written by the guys mentioned (since they only contributed). Did you tell us the author or title directly? No. You only posted a meme, directed at me. A meme that I'm not personally offended by, but just find as utterly stupid as forum signatures like "anyone who finds a typo in my text may keep it". Those last mentioned caused a little smile, when I first read one of them 20+ years ago. Nowadays, it's just an over-used excuse for laziness, even though almost every device has as a spell checker (or worse: auto-correct) - yes I know, doesn't help with names, but we're talking anti-spell-checking memes right here. To me, memes like that signal only one thing: "to hell with education and to hell with any diligence - let's be proud of ignorance!" - and I'm kind of allergic to that growing trend in modern society. In other words: I'd have disliked the meme as much if you'd posted it towards anybody else here. Making a mistake isn't a big deal. Happens all the time, and no one is immune from it. However, making excuses for them can become a problem (e.g. if you don't even try to avoid them). Trying to attack or ridicule people who try to improve on wrong information by giving better, more correct or more precise information with these kind of stupid memes is worse than both. It's childish and does not help anybody, it even tries to discourage people from improving things by correcting mistakes or information. And only after I called the meme out for what it was: a lame attempt at humor with zero relevance, you deigned to provide actual facts about the book. Would have been so much more useful to post all that info instead of the meme in the first place.

And by the way, the fact that RCtech happens to exist for more than 20 years now is exactly how related to whether or not facts can and should be checked and wrong information that was given may or should be corrected? Only because it's an old and well-established website, we should ignore wrong information, never bother to correct anything or improve things? Is that what you're saying? Really?