What's the difference between ? and ??

Sandman

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As we can see in this post

? means:
"This post is accurate."
"I agree with everything written here."


And as we all know, ? means "like".

While this is nice, it also make things more difficult to understand. Look at this post by @KMatle, which I found interesting:

As we can see, @Erel has given it a thumbs up:


Which means he likes it. But he doesn't say the post is accurate. He also doesn't say that he agrees with everything written here. (Which are the two meanings of the "100%" reaction.)

If I were to give a like to a post it's because I liked something with it. I don't consider myself an expert in anything (other than heating my office chair whilst drinking coffee). But there are a number of real experts on the forum, with Erel being the top one. So when an expert, such as Erel, says "like" instead of "accurate", I think it must mean something. But what does it mean?

This makes it very confusing for me. What part of the post is incorrect? Am I to interpret the like as "you managed a long post, good job, it's not very correct but don't give up, you'll figure it out"?

I'm not trying to cause friction or act dumbly, I genuinely can't understand how to understand the difference between "like" and "accurate", when it's given by an expert.

Does anyone have a clear understanding of this and can explain to me?
 

Erel

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Sandman

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Don't treat it too seriously
Yeah, I'm stupid like that - I kind of like to understand things.

If you saw an obvious error/problem with a post, would you give it a ? without commenting? (I don't think you would, but I wanted to verify.) If not, then at least we can know for sure that ? contains "looks good to me with no obvious problems (but didn't investigate the details)".

And yes, I'll take your advice and try to relax more. Not sure how I can fit more coffee and staring blankly into the sky into my day, but I will try really hard!
 

Erel

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If you saw an obvious error/problem with a post, would you give it a ? without commenting?
Never.

If not, then at least we can know for sure that ? contains "looks good to me with no obvious problems (but didn't investigate the details)".
Exactly.
 

peacemaker

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? - i like this idea! And it may be useful for my projects in future.
? - tested by me and it works for sure now !
 
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