this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
1013 points (98.0% liked)

Programmer Humor

32730 readers
64 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I think it's worse when they say they found a solution and include a link which is now dead.

With Google dropping its archive I feel like dead links are going to be more and more common.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hate the ones that are just "open a case" and then they close the thread without saying what the fix ended up being, looking at you Veeam forums.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

So many of my searches lead to Microsoft forums where my exact issue is posted, MS asks for more information, then some auto-mod closes the issue because there wasn't any further follow up and they can't replicate it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And it always marks the damn "thank you for contacting Microsoft" post as "the answer"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Every. Damn. Time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

The worst is when they say they've found a solution, without adding any information or elaborating further. Makes me want to flip my desk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Even worse in my opinion is when you find someone who had the same problem as you and the only person who replies says "use google." It's like that's how I got to this page!