The "too small to fail" memory-allocation rule

This may be true but to do it on purpose only wastes the expert's time and make them stop wanting to talk to anyone.

In my opinion this is why discussions on comp.lang.c eventually turned every thread into "Read the FAQ" and for a while StackOverflow every new question was turned into a duplicate, until it became too much work to even find the duplicate for each stupid question and now the site is mostly junk. In my opinion.