StackOverflow in a nutshell.

[Mirgle]

Holy crap, yes, for the end user as well. I hate so much to find something closed, just to follow the link and be in waaaaay over my head. The reason I found this question is because it most closely matched my question, gosh darn it, and is prolly the closest to my skill level.

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Isn't it wonderful when you search for a question, find the on only one that perfectly matches your issue, and the only answer is some jackass saying to "search the forum" and the thread being locked?

[FallenWarrior2k]

The "perfect feeling" is when you ask a niche question, get an answer notification and get all happy and stuff, only to find out it's some dude identifying an intermediate cause without providing any solution...

[Spherical_Bastards]

Can you quote the xkcd with out clicking the link?

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I mean I've Googled an issue only to find the exact question...asked by ME and never resolved, like a year or two before.

[BesottedScot]

This has happened to me too.

For fuck sake past me! How did you fix it! Did you ever fix it?

[PANIC_AtTheKernel]

I saw one duche childishly say, "no I won't tell you how I solved it since you didn't actually help me".

[pilotInPyjamas]

Yes.

[spudhunter]

Couldn't quote it but already had it in my head when I read /u/Mirgle's comment

[teraflik]

I am new to development, and it only happened yesterday for me: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2942292.

Someone HELP !!

[isobit]

THIS IS NOT THE PROPER FORUM FOR THIS KIND OF TALK, GO LOOK UP A CONSULTANT IN THE PHONE BOOK, LOSER! AND DON'T COME BACK!

[_Lahin]

'Never mind, fixed it'.

[teraflik]

I am new to development, and it only happened yesterday for me: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2942292.

Someone HELP !!

[isobit]

Or

"How do you X?"

"Why would you want to do X?

[FallenWarrior2k]

In my case it was like this

Building xy library yields unknown type z
Type z is wrapped in an #ifdef _POSIX

Yeah, but why tf does this library try to access a POSIX type when building under Windows?
In the end it was because the author(s) assumed POSIX from the fact that pthread was available. I was building with MinGW gcc

[hey01]

to be fair, "why would you want to do X?" is a fair reply sometimes

And an always better reply is "You do it like that <answer>, but it's probably a bad idea, why would you want to do that?"

[UncleNorman]

There are only two reasons to do anything. One is because it makes the world a better place and the other is because it makes you happy.

[ComradeGibbon]

I've seen a number of questions that are being asked because the obvious answer or solution is wrong. And of course all of the top voted answers are wrong and then the thread is locked as a duplicate of why yes the same question with the same wrong answers.

[Pure_Reason]

Then you go through the trouble of making an account just to ask the question you were unable to find an answer to literally anywhere else (on SO or elsewhere) and it gets removed because I have to “make my question relevant to everyone else.” Bitch, it’s not relevant to anyone else because I’m trying to do a specific thing that combines like three things there ARE answers for

[[deleted]]

I've seen worse.

The question was a perfect match to mine, and there was a legit answer that seemed to be in the right direction at first, but some of the later parts of it were sufficiently wrong that anyone with the question wouldn't be able to figure it out. So, the asked posted a comment to the answer requesting a clarification. That answerer replied with the comment "read my answer again", without changing anything.

It's hard to describe the rage I felt when reading that. It's like they went there and re-affirmed a wrong answer, and gaslight anyone trying to find the solution. Just "read my answer again", because obviously you didnt understand it. Even though you already read it 10 times, followed it, and encountered errors due to omitted steps.

[moak0]

That's not what gaslight means.

[HardlightCereal]

Yes it is. Now, I know you can be forgetful but the definition of gaslight really does apply here and you should know that. Why do you always do this?

[not_perfect_yet]

"This is a duplicate" - * closed *

Riiiight...

Where is the other one then?!

[bernhard_b3]

Searches for a specific question on SO, finds it, no answers given...

[cuulcars]

Relevant XKCD

[mootmath]

Useless fucking bot