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SOLVED: This apparently is a baking dish. Thrift store find for my wife. But why is there a hole in the side? What is it?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Oh, and it's LARGE. That's my range it's sitting on, and it covers about 2/3 of it.
Only one sensible person out of like 30 hare brained suggestions.
"mAyBe It'S fOr SqUeEzInG dOuGh From." -everyone else
Eh, guessing is fun and you could only know by having had one. I did enjoy just how silly some of the wrong answers were. This might be the first time I was the only one who knew a thing, too, so that was cool.
People just can't resist the urge to say something, even if it's useless. Especially if it's useless. (Even me, here I am saying something.)
But in this particular community, if you don't actually know with certainty what something is it doesn't seem to hard to just shut the fuck up. There's no value whatsoever in conjecture. I had no idea what the hell this thing was but I was interested to find out, but I sure as hell didn't feel the need to speculate...
Engagement helps posts in various algorithms, though I'm not sure that Lemmy uses comments for Hot or anything else. More importantly, I think there's truth to the meme that the quickest way to get an answer to your question on the internet isn't to ask the question, it's to tell someone else the wrong answer. People will then chime in with the right answer if they know it. Wrong answers can be useful in that respect.
I can
But should you?
Should anyone?