this won't end well
this won't end well
Even worse is when OP on the nine year old thread with the exact same technical problem announces "Solved!" without elaborating
Or it's your own post from 9 years ago.
On the other hand, I stumbled upon one post with the exact same problem, turns out it was me from almost a decade ago and forgot about it. I provided a detailed walkthrough to fix it. Thanks younger me!
Now delete it so that no AI companies can potentially make a sliver of a penny from it.
I feel the logical conclusion is to just destroy all human created content entirely to avoid being exploited by corporations. But that may not be a reasonable solution.
It would be like an artist refusing to record or perform their music for fear of someone else making money from it or copying the style.
Everyone started doing this like a year ago around the time of the mass exodus (or mini exodus maybe) but it wasn’t until these last few months I’ve been searching for some stuff and gets tons of links back to Reddit, and sure enough half of the answers I want are deleted. Which is kind of annoying, but I understand why they did what they did.
Unfortunately Reddit is still an incredibly useful archive of advice and help, and I care more about helping some poor soul avoid hours of frustration than chipping a spec of dust off of some training dataset.
Saw that on stack overflow. Was like, who's this fella with my exact issue. Ah, myself 6 years ago.
"Wow this guy was a genius huh?"
"For sure! Hehehe"
Same thing. For me it was wifi drivers.
It's a bootstrap paradox. In the future you will go back in time and must leave the original question so you will have something to respond to.
I don't think I've ever thanked my younger self. That guy is a selfish prick.
I try to leave comments when I figure something out, especially when the thread is a top Google result. It's like leaving one of those little rock piles for others to find.
I recently found a thread that went like this:
[Comment deleted]
Thank you! I ended up going with your solution :)
I've been running into "comment removed in protest of API change" comments.
[deleted]
oh my god, thank you so much! this fixed everything for me!
[screams internally]
"Edit: fixed the issue"
What did you do?
"........" [Last activity 7 years ago]
The whole thread is filled with posts that just say "same."
And OP saying "I fixed it" with no explanation, and then someone saying they fixed it too, also without an explanation.
Few things make me want to reach through the screen and punch a person as much as that.
This but with GitHub issues
Don't give up, skeleton!
Try but hole
It's usually because the solution was embarrassing
I forgot to turn my computer on 😓
Don't worry, they died naked.
Rust monster came by after they died
Rust monster need to eat too bro. Cycle of life. Hope bone monster is okay though.
I thought he just found a complete gear the other had no use for any more ...
Dead men tell no tales.
"Nevermind, i solved it." never to be heard again.
Lol
Problem marked as "solved" without naming the solution is a regular thing on stackexchange. I hate it with a vengeance.
Don't give up skeleton!
me and Norton antivirus in 10,000 years
(me on the left)
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More like searching for solutions and finding questions I posted years ago lol
I recently read a post of someone saying he loves fucking with people by going on forums commenting on unsolved issues "I managed to solve it! Finally!" without saying how nor never replying to people asking what he did. So you might have seen him.
Sir Chicken Legs
I know this pain