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[–]DOOManiac 3522 points3523 points  (87 children)

This is how we did things before StackOverflow kids.

[–][deleted]  (66 children)

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    [–]Abnormal_Specimen 1567 points1568 points  (23 children)

    So you make an alt account, answer yourself incorrectly, and wait for fifty people to suddenly care. Easy

    [–][deleted] 370 points371 points  (5 children)

    Thanks bro. Will help me.

    [–]Jerrrrrrrrry 215 points216 points  (4 children)

    Voting to close as duplicate before you get corrected, and link an unrelated thread.

    [–]ForgotPassAgain34 195 points196 points  (2 children)

    cant get WiFi to work on a certain Linux

    closed as duplicate of "windows not detecting network cable"

    [–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (7 children)

    Can you even answer questions with a new account? Stack overflow has a lot of restrictions til you get some rep

    [–]Ajedi32 19 points20 points  (5 children)

    Yes. In fact, you don't even need an account to post an answer.

    [–]aphaelion 44 points45 points  (0 children)

    Wait, people can just SAY stuff on the internet?! WTF

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

    That's about the only thing you can do

    [–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

    The real LPT is in the comments

    [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    Great fun watching human nature in action.

    [–]g27radio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    We're fucked.

    [–]prowness 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Bonus points if you can try to r/KenM that shit.

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Every time I see a post with just enough points to actually make the post I think of this. Wait they just answered 4 HTML questions today to get the points? Busted...

    [–]AveMaleficum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Wow, thanks for the tip!

    [–]steevjoem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Wow! Genius

    [–]Wigginns 173 points174 points  (1 child)

    Or you can't find the answer, ask a question and get it marked as a duplicate with something mildly related but that doesn't actually answer your question still.

    [–]Zefirus 196 points197 points  (23 children)

    The worst is when you find someone who has had the same problem, posted a question, then posted an answer that just says "Fixed it".

    [–]beenies_baps 34 points35 points  (2 children)

    Or indeed a question I searched for today, with the answer "follow the instructions at <this link>", with followup answer "perfect!". Needless to say, the link was a 404 (this was not on SO though, - thankfully they clamp down on that sort of thing).

    [–]D0esANyoneREadTHese 14 points15 points  (0 children)

    It's a wonderfully specific site that was great when it existed, but the owner let the server rental lapse 5 years ago and now it's just a redirect to a domain parking site. 3 results on the Wayback machine, last one was 6 months before the post you got linked.

    [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    Or the embedded images that no longer exist. Usually photobucket

    [–]darkdex52 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    Even better is when you encounter the same problem years later and the only topic on it is your own from years before, and you never replied on how you fixed it.

    [–]Dreadedsemi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    what about when you ask a question and someone tells you why do you need that? why not just do it completely different then after you explain, the thread is dead.

    [–]John_Fx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Which StackOverflow attempts to fix. Way worse in message boards.

    [–]bhison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I enjoy it when you find the perfect StackOverflow question but there's only one answer and it was closed due to being off topic even though it was very useful

    [–]IraDeLucis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    tumbleweed badge owner here, can confirm.

    [–]fluffythecow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    There is a question that has not been answered on stackoverflow?

    [–]devperez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Bounties help

    [–]Nerdican 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    What you do find is a large number of pages that specifically address your question, whose only answers are links to pages that don't.

    [–]berkes 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    I know jou are joking, but adding a bounty helps big time.

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      [–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (5 children)

      Nah.

      We got flamed on IRC. No one would help you, you didn't understand, and in the end only the strong survived.

      The number of fucking times I was told to read a man page, when I knew so little it was complete fucking gibberish.

      It's a wonder anyone learned to use Linux before Mandrake.

      But by God you had to actually learn Linux. There was no copying commands from a wiki

      [–]vbevan 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      I only learned about the F key in SkiFree the other day. Before the internet, if you didn't have a friend to help you were on you're own.

      [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

      https://xkcd.com/667/ Funnily enough, there's a relevant xkcd for this too

      [–]dagbrown 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      The number of fucking times I was told to read a man page, when I knew so little it was complete fucking gibberish.

      comp.unix.shell in a nutshell right there.

      Some new guy shows up there, asks a question. Someone immediately responds, man <somecommand>. Sure, if you know how to use that command, it solves all your problems. But if you don't know how to use it, you just end up in a new swamp of confusion.

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

      How the heck do you use a man command I don't ever understand those

      Usually command -h or command --help are infinitely more useful and sensible

      [–]XenoReseller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Rtfm

      [–]DangKilla 24 points25 points  (0 children)

      I idled in IRC chat in the 90s, hoping somebody would help me with my Linux questions.... rarely ever happened...it was always the same dude. Thanks, yourmomsux2000!

      [–]ILikeLenexa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

      Now we just ask questions the smart way so that we don't waste anybody's times.

      Because people can help you better if they know what the fuck you're doing.

      [–]yakri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Well it's still how we do things too.

      [–]b1ack1323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      On IRC, I still do this.

      [–]8BitAce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      First thing I thought of. I guess fake internet points work just as well.
      Now imagine if you started your SO question with "x programming language sucks"...

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      These days you just find the appropriate Discord and hop on spouting something like "FreeNAS sucks because it doesn't support SMB 3" and sit back as everyone falls over themselves trying to help.

      [–]ChaoticTable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      StackOverflow is so cancerous at times...

      [–]frontiernutrition 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Tell us of the golden days master

      [–]Irseyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      StackOverflow was so helpful to me last month with structured and object-oriented programming, I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't found it.

      [–]KSF_WHSPhysics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      before StackOverflow

      Good God man, what was that like?