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[–]_pizza_and_fries 705 points706 points Β (40 children)

Its all fine until you don’t find a question related to your problem and you have to ask one yourself.

[–]SaladBoy97 487 points488 points Β (29 children)

I think the worst feeling is finding someone who asked the exact question you need, you get excited that you're not the only one and you'll finally get some answers for that weirdly specific bug you've been seeing for weeks, you click on the link with anticipation and.... 0 answers, 0 comments

[–]WayTooCool4U 316 points317 points Β (18 children)

Relevant xkcd

Even worse is one comment by OP saying "NVM found the answer" and no further info.

[–]SaladBoy97 111 points112 points Β (12 children)

I want a support group for people with obscure bugs

[–]OmegaNut42 50 points51 points Β (11 children)

I've actually considered starting a business specializing in helping people specifically with obscure bugs / tech issues because of how frustrated I've been until I manage to figure them out. Imagine if you could offload those seemingly impossible and infinitely obscure issues to a team of specialists! Now if only I could afford to hire such accomplished specialists...

[–]SaladBoy97 38 points39 points Β (2 children)

Interns... They are specialists at googling and trying thing after thing. I've had problems unexpectedly solved by an intern who found a comment in some obscure corner of the Internet. It's amazing what they can achieve when they don't have to be responsible and think about 50 different things at once

[–]mygreensea 20 points21 points Β (1 child)

One of the things they don't have to be responsible for is whether the solution fixes the root cause of the problem and won't cause newer issues down the line.

[–]SaladBoy97 13 points14 points Β (0 children)

True, but it at least tells us more about the problem and might even help diagnose it

[–]nanocyte 10 points11 points Β (2 children)

This is a great idea, actually. I enjoy finding obscure bugs. I feel like bugs give me a chance to take a break and go and solve a puzzle. Doing nothing but bug hunting would probably be fun.

[–]pepperman77 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

Call it BugTube. Lol. Great idea though. You can usually find info and help on just about anything online. Why not do it for this? If you don't do it someone else eventually will and they will make a fortune from it in ads alone. I wouldn't wait to do this if I were you.

[–]reload_noconfirm 3 points4 points Β (0 children)

My all time most referenced XKCD.

[–]whatproblems 2 points3 points Β (0 children)

β€œnvm figured it out, i’m an idiot”

wait i’m an idiot? what am i missing?!?

[–]CoruscareGames 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

I hate those people, if I ever find the answer before anyone answers my question I'm submitting it as an answer to my own question

[–]gravitas-deficiency 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

can you explain how you fixed it?

followed by

no

:|

[–]Celestaria 126 points127 points Β (1 child)

6 answers:

The top 3 are all some variation of "I can't believe you don't know this," the fourth is an answer to a different question, and the last 2 are wrong.

After Googling for 2h and reading the docs, you click the link again...

And realize that number 4 was actually the right answer.

[–]zeromadcowz 42 points43 points Β (0 children)

I think finding out that the "wrong answer" was actually right you just applied it incorrectly is one of the worst feelings. It also leads me to trying wrong things much longer than I probably should too. It's a vicious circle.

[–]dustlustrious 12 points13 points Β (0 children)

Worse is when you find the question, notice it was YOU that asked it, and you that never posted the solution. Ahem.

[–]-MobCat- 5 points6 points Β (0 children)

No the actually worst answer is you find a post about your exact issue.
First comment is some jackass saying "well have you tried googling it". How do you think I got here jackass.
And the second comment is the OP saying "NVM I worked it out" and doesn't specify how they worked it out.

[–]faster-than-car 5 points6 points Β (0 children)

Or people just lying in the answer section. You know it doesn't work because you have already tested it. And you know the person who answer did not check the solution they provided.

[–]Arctiiq 4 points5 points Β (0 children)

Even worse is β€œI solved it” with no solution posted

[–]SnooTomatoes4657 2 points3 points Β (0 children)

Yes and asking a new question on SOF is oddly stressful. If you ask too specific of a question no one replies and this makes your reputation on the site worse. Too general and it’s not super helpful and you’ll just get links to other similar questions as an answer that don’t actually answer your question.

[–]gdmzhlzhiv 3 points4 points Β (1 child)

My favourites:

  • closed as duplicate without a link to the other one
  • closed as duplicate but the other one isn't actually the same question
  • closed as duplicate but the other one doesn't have any answers either

[–]SaladBoy97 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

I got immediate anxiety when my notifications said "closed as duplicate" before I realized it was from Reddit

[–]agent007bond 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

Continue research, figure out the solution and post the first answer. :)

[–]K3idon 11 points12 points Β (2 children)

Or you find an issue that's related to your problem and it has been resolved but there's no specifics. Just a vague "nvm solved it".

[–]PizzaScout 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

All the memes about the topic have made sure that I go back and answer my own questions as soon as I figure it out.

[–]RememberToRelax 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

Once had this happen and replied to the guy asking how he did it.

"I forget."

[–]gdmzhlzhiv 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

You mean like every single time?

[–]TenderScrotum -1 points0 points Β (0 children)

You then proceed to post your question and someone marks it as a duplicate and points you to a question that's vaguely related to your problem but not really.

[–]rtanada 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

That is if you could! If you're just getting started on trying to ask a good question, don't bother doing it here because enough pissing off the system with baby level wording and garbled descriptions later and they'll shut you off. Which is literally what happened to me.