These are actually questions i am asking myself. I think they might be some of the right questions.
Learning is a tricky thing, the most critical part in guiding your own learning is asking the right questions.
I was recently on VLA and watched some humans act in leadership roles. What they did was subtle, and just tickled things along, but they did well. And i was thinking about that, and I was thinking about when I read the dead thread.
It occurs to me, that I have learned more by reading or talking in dead threads that were unspoiled, as once retrospective wisdom in hindsight analysis kicks in most else turns to mush.
So the question I am asking myself, is if I modded a game, would it have spoiled or unspoiled dead thread. I am currently thinking I would always go with and unspoiled one, as I think that would work best towards what i would consider my mod wincon. But as i said elsewhere horses for courses, without differences of opinions we would not have
horse races.
(aka YMMV, and perhaps it even should)
