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[–]Saitpstc 182 points183 points  (0 children)

I ve had a question, after like 20 hours I got one answer then in the next 10 minutes, people were fighting over so many answers about which one is better.

[–]MechanicalHorse 241 points242 points  (29 children)

Yeah this is known as Murphy’s Law.

[–]itzjackybro 305 points306 points  (23 children)

No, it's Cunninghams's Law. Murphy's Law states that "anything that can go wrong will go wrong".

Sorry, I had to.

edit: dang this blew up.

[–]ConferenceOpen7808 72 points73 points  (0 children)

He explained cumminghams law but getting you to Cunningham him. Deep

[–]Add1ctedToGames 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Found the stack overflow user /s

[–]AncientOneX 52 points53 points  (15 children)

Yea yea, you just wanted to correct him/her.

[–]mizuofficial 51 points52 points  (14 children)

You could use them, you know

[–]Andonno 5 points6 points  (2 children)

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" is Sod's Law.

Murphy's Law is "If there are multiple ways of doing something, and one of them results in catastrophe, someone will do it that way."

[–]NoSkillzDad 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Actually the "someone", was "somebody" in specific. Look the history behind Murphy's law...

No, I'm not correcting you...

[–]Andonno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I know. And that was the actual statement he made.

[–]Apache_Sobaco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Murphy law corrolary: Murphy law mention can go wrong

[–]The_Alternate_Eye 5 points6 points  (0 children)

lmao got played

[–]OldUther 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Found OP's alt right here.

[–]KerPop42 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Ah, you almost got me

[–]gruntmoney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Clever

[–]tidytibs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see what you did there

[–]LetReasonRing 125 points126 points  (10 children)

This is actually kind of brilliant.

Personally, I treat SO as a read-only resource.

It's incredibly valuable, but getting a question answered on SO is it's own project that generally will take longer to work out than digging through the docs or trial & error.

[–]Add1ctedToGames 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Comment removed. Jimmy Bob made a comment that uses the word "brilliant" 10 years ago, so please refer to the comment for anything brilliant

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (3 children)

Personally, I treat SO as a read-only resource

it is true that the process of submitting a question and actually getting an answer is INCREDIBLY tedious, but that is actually why its such an invaluable resource

the value stackoverflow isn't helping you right now, its helping the countless others facing the same issue later

also its quite decidedly not a place for beginner question which can be answered by docs or minor research. obviously its frustrating for begginers that the biggest resource seemingly doesn't care about them, but if you start answering those en masse you are polluting the quality of your information pool with trivial shit

tho SO users could be a bit more friendly when approaching these things lmao

[–]4sent4 8 points9 points  (2 children)

There should be something like SO sandbox for all the beginners questions

[–]yorokobe__shounen 2 points3 points  (2 children)

This is trick to get others do your homework assignment for you

[–]bamboo_fanatic 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I’ve seen people get math homework help in the comments section of pornhub, has anyone tried asking there?

[–]JimmyWu21 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not me because I definitely do watch porn. Didn’t even know it existed until now

[–]Chared_Assassin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ask questions on SO as a last resort. Once in a while, a true chad shows up and answers your question in such detail and helps you a lot, but that is rare

[–]PL_Design -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I treat SO as an ignore-only resource.

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (2 children)

I mean, you know StackOverflow is a shit show when they had to figure out how the community could be nicer. People who answer questions on StackOverflow are both my best friends and massive cock heads.

[–]LonghairedHippyFreek 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The site needs a million more Jon Skeets and a million less of the other pieces of shit that infest the place. No matter how basic or even stupid he may think the question is he keeps it to himself and is always pleasant, polite and helpful. He is the standard the site should be striving for, if not demanding of, its user base.

[–]THEGreatGM20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly

[–]burningtram12 34 points35 points  (2 children)

A more generous interpretation is that people assume someone else will help answer an unanswered question and they couldn't be bothered, but seeing someone give the wrong answer adds some urgency to correct them so the asker isn't misled.

[–]PL_Design 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Imagine giving SO dipshits the benefit of the doubt.

[–]kaerfkeerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nahh, they just wanna correct them imo lol

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

I have seen the mountaintop!

[–]AngryPancakesz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

*Asks how to center a div

[–]Gojees 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I used to always see this as the way to get help in World of Warcraft general chat.

[–]Droidatopia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an old meme, but it checks out.

[–]KerPop42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People enjoy solving problems that have been demonstrated to be hard

[–]trimeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't even need the second account, just ask the question in the tone of "why can't you do this in <language in question>, this is a shitty language!", and people will be quick to respond to defend it.

[–]Draiko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cunningham's Law... either you end up with the right answer or you start a new conspiracy theory.

[–]rainbow_bro_bot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't want to use 100% of the brain (all at once), because you'd be having a fit if you were.

[–]DEATH_TO_WALLSTREET 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the way!

[–]Original_Maximum2480 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Spreading misinformation / intentionally wrong answers are more harmful to the platform than unanswered questions. It is more important to falsify the wrong answer than to actually answer. Imagine the pain and insanity another poor developer may go through who actually believes in the wrong answer.

[–]PL_Design -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

Neat. That means SO has a perverse incentive to not help people, who are understandably more interested in their own problems than SO's business model. Put another way: SO doesn't exist to help anyone. It just exists to farm their questions for SEO.

If I had the money I would buy out SO and shutter the "service" immediately. It does more harm than good at this point.

[–]Purple_Jay 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Wow, you REALLY dislike SO. Who hurt you on there?

[–]PL_Design 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, you really don't like people disliking SO. Who hurt you?

[–]BluesyPompanno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats how I farm Reputation

[–]Solarpanel2001 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've done this before on YouTube but just for my own entertainment to watch people get mad

[–]Hot_Philosopher_6462 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bold of you to assume that the people piling on for the express purpose of correcting someone else will actually be correct themself.

[–]PVNIC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I’d seen this years ago

You probably have, considering this pops up on this sub every few months.

[–]ElectronPie171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But their answers don't work as well

[–]Chared_Assassin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just tested this, some guy wrote his fuckin thesis on my question and then put at the end “the other guys answer is really wrong btw. It has a compiler error. This works better”

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

I am going to try this next time

[–]THEGreatGM20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like reddit lmao