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One recommendation I've read is that in such cases you should treat the single label you and your opponent have attached to two different ideas as forbidden. Describe it in more detail to reveal the difference (don't just swap words in the starting combination with their synonyms).


That's fine for discussions between experts but when a hundred noobs enter the discussion it's just unpaid tutoring. These threads are bringing out a lot of "I've discovered something all the distributed systems experts missed" energy.




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