Comment by bayindirh

"RTFM!" comments comes in flavors and bears nuances. In this case, as another commenter has pointed out, the answer smells fishy.

I have been told to "RTFM!" countless times in many places. Some of them were legitimately the correct answer in that context, in hindsight. Some were knee-jerk reactions like this.

Debian's discussion culture might be a little edgy sometimes, but this has nothing to do with Debian.