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0 pointsnickpsecurity9y ago0 comments

A quick Google solves that problem. Anyone that wouldn't do that much is unlikely to be valuable to the project. It's a nice filter at the least.

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arca_vorago9y ago

Bah accidentally downvoted you nick, sorry. Since I downvoted though, I might as well play the game as if I had a reason (because it annoys me when people dv without a reason): I think the request for some basic information without forcing the reader to google/duckduckgo/wikipedia some of the most basic info (such as full name, basic description) is not too much to ask from a journalistic perspective and using it as a barrier is not a good thing for encouraging education.

After all, there is a reason it's called the wikipedia rabbit hole, do you know how often I start with a quick search and suddenly it's an hour later and I've learned all about $something-other-than-originally-intended?

nickpsecurityOP9y ago

If i do it, I just load up comments of that person and upvote any decent comment tgey have. Cancels it out.

On other issue, here's what typing BGP into Google gace me at the top: "Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. The protocol is often classified as a path vector protocol but is sometimes also classed as a distance-vector routing protocol."

Some things are hard to search for. Others, like BGP protocol, are so common you'll get it easily. Those can default on Google. Further, what use is a programmer going to be in robustly implementing the protocol if they can't figure that out? Hence the filter part. So, my position is more solid now that I Googled it.

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nickpsecurityOP9y ago

If i do it, I just load up comments of that person and upvote any decent comment tgey have. Cancels it out.

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