Ooh I like this one -- it's not from a2k, but worth a post here:
Quote:if I don't know enough about the topic to be precise, I have to ask myself why I'm talking about it.
Boy, am I feeling that. It's when I go on about something and I notice I'm doing so in these broad, general, kind of vague terms, where confidence of assertion substitutes for specificity of detail, that I know I'm going to feel embarassed about what I've written later on. And it's when other people feel this need to have something to say about something even if they apparently dont know enough about it to cover any detail of it that I am most annoyed. Take the politics forum - where opinions outnumber facts by the largest available proportion.