>>538340Not too long ago, a committee was working on the design of an atomic reactor. As you know, these contraptions are incredibly complex, requiring years of domain-specific knowledge to engineer correctly. That's why discussions about technical matters proceeded swiftly with minimal arguments. Only the experienced and knowledgeable staff bothered contributing to those meetings. Others didn't have Ph.Ds in nuclear physics so they couldn't possibly contribute anything of value. So they kept quiet.
Development of the reactor proceeded swimmingly until they got to the issue of the bike shed that would be constructed for employees. All of a sudden, 3 years of rapid progress ground to a halt because of this one sticking issue. Why? Because everybody felt they could contribute to the discussion. Everybody had a strong opinion about what colour the bike shed should be, and nobody was willing to budge. Colour was easy, they thought. You didn't need years and years of study to have a strong opinion on the colour of something. So they had loud arguments about the colour of the bike shed, some of which almost ended up in fisticuffs. People started identifying with colours and wrote 15,000-word-long diatribes to each other explaining in fine detail why others were a bunch of stupid shitheads for not realizing what the best colour is.
And now you know why the signal-to-noise ratio of this board is abysmal.
