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!
It’s surreal when this happens. Once I was helping someone at work understand a “tutorial” they found online and it was my own reddit post from years past. So awkward.
you have to withhold yourself form mentioning that’s your account, they could trace your r/gonewild comments then
Rookie mistake, not having an alt for lewd purposes.
Plot twist: It was their alt account. Hence the “awkward”.
“This guy gives great advice and has a massive cock.”
“Yes… He does.”
Now delete it so that no AI companies can potentially make a sliver of a penny from it.
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.
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.
“Edit: fixed the issue”
What did you do?
“…” [Last activity 7 years ago]
Don’t give up, skeleton!
Problem marked as “solved” without naming the solution is a regular thing on stackexchange. I hate it with a vengeance.
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.
The solution has been replaced with lorem ipsum, because spez.