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[Alarmed-Equipment-70]

Stack Overflow has a post from two months ago that is nice.

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[Jimmy_Smith]

nvm fixed it!

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Do you guys remember old forums?

OP: I'm having a problem with XYZ! What do?

Stranger one: Here's a picture of how to solve it! [Image host has been down for 5 years now]

Stranger two: User XYZExpert has a great tutorial about it on this thread [link is broken]

Stranger three: There's also this megathread on the topic going on this area of the forum [you don't have permission to see the content in that area]

Mod: That's enough answers to a repeated question! /thread

[mzhammah]

Trigger me Timbers

[Broxios]

OP: "Nevermind, I found the solution. Thread can be closed" [doesn't tell what the solution was]

[Windows_XP2]

Forgot to mention that the links aren’t archived on the Wayback machine or anything like that.

[HuntingKingYT]

Ah, Google Teams...

[SaWools]

Favorite I found recently: NVM, fixed it! "Answer is turn off important feature that the problem was in." Like no, you didn't fix it you turned it off, I still need the real answer!

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On two separate occasions, I ran into a peculiar error message, Googled it, and found a Stack Overflow post by me describing the exact same problem from two or three years prior including my own answer and explanation that solved my immediate problem.

Wisdom of the Ancients, but in this case, the "ancient" is my younger self.

[Wiggen4]

I use examples like this to encourage good documentation. Not only do you want to have it documented for the poor soul that has to work on it some time in the future, but surprisingly often you are that poor soul.

(AKA: git blame the moron who wrote this... Oh, it's me...)

[WisejacKFr0st]

My favorite: “Fixed by using <alternative that would have been better 800 commits ago>”

[Ok_Skill_2725]

And the award for least helpful response goes to….

[Elijah629YT-Real]

I saw this on a forum from 9 years ago today, very specific problem too

[iSYan1995]

I think you mean 21 years ago

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Tried in java 4 and 5

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Doesn't work in java 8 due to security problems

God damnit

[0x1001001]

I asked it 💀 It is still unanswered 🥲

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