Different ways to learn

[Ghazban]

I recently got a PM from another poster asking me who I thought on a certain board gave the best advice. This got me thinking about this whole message board and the way it has helped my game.

While there are some posters whose play is solid and post excellent advice, I think I learn a lot from the people who (in my opinion) post bad advice, too. I don't take anything anybody says on these boards as unequivocably correct; rather, I read what is written and try to figure out why its correct (or incorrect).

Anyway, after giving this other poster the list of people who generally posted sound advice, I started to regret it. I think his game would improve more dramatically by reading both bad and good advice and being able to determine why the bad advice is bad and why the good is good.

Is it better to seek out posters by name who post good advice and read their posts or to read a wider variety of posters and be able to identify the flaws in the arguments of those posting bad advice?