Sometimes, in our darkest hour, a hand reaches out through history, a fellow traveller from years ago who walked our same blighted road. Which is kind of magical, except when it’s incredibly frustrating because he apparently didn’t get his error message resolved either and ugh.
Past is prologue, am I right? Eh? Maybe a little? [xkcd]
warcroft
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 10:48 AMlol, been there. Had those same thoughts.
Sardo
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 12:04 PMWorse still are the sites that try to make you sign up for what you are sure is the same, not quite working, answer.
Travis
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 12:27 PMThis comic is too close to home…
Alan
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 7:10 PMWhat really pisses me off is when the OP replies later saying “Never mind, I worked it out”. BUT HOW DID YOU FIX IT?!?
Michael
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 9:24 PMThats like watching a movie that builds up a deep mystery at the start, making you WANT to watch it unfold and find out how it ends only to be told “It all worked out in the end” and then the credits.
Matt
Monday, November 21, 2011 at 11:13 AMIf you’re gonna rip stuff straight from XKCD, you could at least have the decency to implement the hovertext, even if you just put it underneath. For those interested, for this one it was:
“All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying ‘DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here’s what we’ve figured out so far …’