Me, who completely nuked twelve years worth of Reddit posts and comments which were often one of, if not the only relevant search result to an extremely niche problem.
Oof yeah. Finding a reddit thread with your exact query as the title, getting excited to see a comment, aaaaand… It’s “This comment was deleted by EliteUltraEraser Premium TM. I value my privacy,…”
(I do get it though. And who knows, maybe this will actually help in the long run
and not just lead to increased usage of Discord communities so ask the same thing over and over and over again because they aren’t fucking publicly searchable god I hate what Discord has done to the searchability of issues in the tech space?)Oops, might have gone a little off topic there.
Ah, I think my edible just hit, that explains it
OK im gonna stop commenting now.
ITT: a case study of mild cannabinoid psychosis
Aka: my autistic ass sober
“Why are you trying to do [x]? Have you tried doing [y] instead?”
“But why do you want that?” should be an automatic time-out on most Q&A sites. Especially anything technical.
I don’t need to convince you to make my decisions.
A lot of the time, the fundamental issue is the lack of information provided by the poster. I’ve seen so many threads where the provided information just isn’t enough, and they don’t react to any of the questions at all.
Nevermind, have figured it out.
<thread closed with NO FUCKING ASWER kthxbye>
Described: Why whenever I figure something out myself after posting a help thread, I’ll write a whole report on what I did before it got fixed (because often I’m just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, and I never know what exactly moved the needle)
Those threads with “fixed it!” and no instructions? If they’re on reddit, I’m posting “I deleted system32 and the problem went away!”
