The majority of the members of
little_details - at least the ones that habitually respond - would be horrible reference librarians. Don't ask us about that! That's too complicated! You didn't ask right! Have you even LOOKED?! I can't remember the last time I saw a post there where the poster wasn't jumped on or snarked at for one reason or the other
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logophilos in particular needs to shut the fuck up count to thirty before she responds to anything.
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Me, still staying. One, because I've got no competition in answering the Poland questions, and two, because it's still helpful sometimes. Though not as much as it purports itself to be. (I'm still not sure I found the right place for a seventeeth-century duel in Vienna.)
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I used to read it because it was interesting to learn all these little factoids; now, that interest is nearly outweighed by irritation at the inability to be at least polite. Seriously people, its a question. No one is dragging you by the heels around the walls of Troy.
The one that set me off today WAS a milelong list - I just think it would have been much more polite and productive to say something like "you have a lot of big research questions here, and you might want to go see a reference librarian for help. We generally just answer small details."
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