not be of any use as a reference

If a person A says “X is not a reference”,

• I don’t see how X is not helpful as a fact.
• That person A doesn’t have the ability to extract helpful information from X? There are cases of both

So the opinion “not helpful” is not helpful (joking). - boomerang joke

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