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@Viss

In some STEM adjacent spaces it's not about celebrating the thing, having fun with the thing, helping others with the thing or even complaining about the thing to share the suffering.

It's a competition to be the winner of knowing things. Asking questions and not knowing things is "points deducted" rebuffing "noobs" is points won. It's tiresome and self conscious. For some information such places can't be totally avoided.

Stack Exchange has a low-grade case of this.