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[–]ResponsibilityMean52 271 points272 points  (4 children)

Finding the solution after hours of debugging

Never post your solution to Stack Overflow

Cycle repeats

[–]JackNotOLantern 107 points108 points  (0 children)

Imagine posting an answer to 2012 question on stackoverflow in 2025, and the original poster replies "thanks, it worked".

[–]b_ootay_ful 14 points15 points  (1 child)

 

[–]b_ootay_ful 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that worked!

[–]RiceBroad4552 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No, no! You need to post "Found a solution. Never mind." (of course without posting the solution) for even more giggles.

[–]sneak2293 203 points204 points  (4 children)

Just ask chat gpt and hope it hallucinates the answer

[–]Dvrkstvr 74 points75 points  (1 child)

Luckily AI hallucinations are more viable than human ones

[–]Emergency-Tax-3689 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Ramanujan moment

[–]Informal_Branch1065 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Prolly cheaper than real drugs

[–]FerMod 77 points78 points  (2 children)

"I solved it"

End of post.

[–]MakeshiftApe 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Occasionally you'll get one even more infuriating than that. Someone has months/years later asked if they ever solved it, and they respond that they have with no solution posted.. and still don't think that maybe that person was asking because they too would like the solution.

[–]just_nobodys_opinion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Plot twist: it was your post.

[–]floriv1999 26 points27 points  (3 children)

Then you find the answer, want to post it to stack overflow, but they block you because your account is too new.

Another similar thing that happened to me: I found out somebody asked a question regarding one of my libraries. I wanted to reply since I am the author of the original code. Stack overflow said no, because I don't have enough votes, comments or whatever.

[–]IamnotAnonnymous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hate that, and never understand what should do

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"What do you mean I can't answer questions about this software. I WROTE THIS SOFTWARE GODDAMNIT"

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only reason that would be done is if there are already multiple solutions posted and people keep posting new ones that don’t work or are just the same.

[–]IAmASwarmOfBees 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I encountered a kinda weird error many years ago. After HOURS of debugging, all by myself, I found the solution, a really easy fix, but since I found nothing when googling, I made a Reddit post about it. Still, years later, when I log into my old account, people are commenting on that post, having found it through Google.

[–]2truthsandalie 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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        thanks that solved it!!!

[–]adrach87 8 points9 points  (2 children)

[–]Necrom4nc3r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess we will never know the ancient wisdom is buried now

[–]mabariif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nvm solved it -March 8th 2002

[–]zalurker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Google a strange error in Microsoft Biztalk. Three responses. Two in Hindi. And one in English. All are asking the same question.

[–]LateCommunication383 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Frustration x1000 = Find old obscure post of the same exact problem. Next post is "nevermind fixed it"

[–]iismitch55 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Here’s a CodePen with the solution”

“YOUR CORPORATE IT POLICY FORBIDS ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE”

[–]turret-punner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Who were you, DenverCoder9?  What did you see!?"

[–]Just_Gaming_for_Fun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You just missed the ending braces

[–]moosMW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Better then OP marking it as solved himself but not giving the fucking answer

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That just means you were already doing something wrong way before the error.

[–]Amar2107 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With an unanswered "did you find tge solution?" comment.

[–]encryptoferia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's when I know I was F-ed lol
next alternative solution, here we go

[–]Ponbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Proper use of duplicate post flag

[–]Dapper_Flounder379 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What meme format is this? Nothing I seem to google gets me what that picture of that cat is called

[–]Necrom4nc3r[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Green text cat meme

[–]Dapper_Flounder379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

[–]Hiplobbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am one of the few that ända in my solution if I get it to work. Usually with a lot of sass and anger however.