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the fastest way to get the right answer online is to post the wrong one.
means cunningham's law is the internet folk-observation that people correct bad information faster than they'll answer a plain question.
from named after programmer ward cunningham (inventor of the wiki), though he denies coining it — it was popularized by steven mcgeady, who attributed the line to him in the 1980s.
real inventorward cunningham says he never said it
mechanismego beats altruism as a motivator
used inreddit threads, stack overflow, wikipedia talk pages
cousin theoryrelated to muphry's law of editing