We aren’t. It doesn’t hurt to state this in the docs, correct, that’s why I told the OP to add it to the docs.
You seem to expect that to be done upfront though, for all sorts of potential questions and mistakes in understanding.
But there’s so much “natural” stuff - that is just too much to list - that devs cannot think of where a user might take a wrong turn like this one. Let alone they are busy on tasks only they can accomplish and improving docs is a task almost anybody else can take on …
It’s ok to highlight as was done here, but it’s not ok to expect “someone” to stand in and correct/improve it on your behalf. Frankly, we expect any user to contribute his share … and this thread shows that virtually anyone can, thanks @BGunnarB for demonstrating.
Well. First and foremost, noone’s calling anyone silly or stupid. I don’t and no other person did.
It’s not ok you impute that to any poster here. Be more cautious with statements like that.
Second - and yes it’s a thin line and unclear where exactly it is located -, everybody needs to apply a fair amount of common sense. Every user has to contribute his share, too. That’s even more so true for an Open Source product driven by volunteers that this is. Is it too much to expect anyone to know or at least assume that if there is no specific statement on rule names or variables that they must not be duplicated ? I am not the person to decide, but to me applying common sense would mean to be cautious here and avoid that in the first place.
You may feel “put off” when you’re hit by a response like this - and that’s an individual thing how quickly you feel hit - but on the other hand, any responder also has a point there in highlighting that you may NOT expect to be warned of anything that may potentially go wrong by neither docs nor forum members.
You still need to apply common sense yourself and may not waste other’s time in not doing so.
And unlike you do, I believe this is highly productive to remind people to apply common sense in situations like this one. Way more productive than an outright answer in fact. At least every now and then and of course only as long as posters don’t violate sense of decency, respect the posting rules and the community guidelines.
And you can trust me that as a moderator I’ve seen a LOT of stupid questions, responses and threads that are WAY more unproductive, offputting, arrogant and presumptuous [not sure that’s the proper term, I’m no native speaker] and waste of time.