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Or when you find a thread where someome is asking the question and the only response is by some wise guy telling him to "search". And of course, searching keeps

Or when you find a thread where someome is asking the question and the only response is by some wise guy telling him to "search". And of course, searching keeps pointing you back to the same thread.

fla 11y ago
No no, The very _worse_ thing is when there is only one answer saying he found a solution but doesn't provide any information.
- stuaxo 11y ago
  Also, when 4 years later you come back to the thread to find it is was you, asking the question before.
  - craigching 11y ago
    haha! OMG, that has happened to me before!
  - david-given 11y ago
    On the plus side, the last time this happened to me, I discovered that someone had posted a really useful answer to my question which helped solve me problem. The person who had posted the answer was, of course, also me.
    - dekhn 11y ago
      this is working as intended; the web is an external memory.
  - SEJeff 11y ago
    My experience is that said person coming back to my thread is a coworker. Then they tell me they can't get away from me and even after they try to find something on their own I helped them fix it. Quite amusing
krylon 11y ago
Mmmh, that has never happened to me. That is just plain mean. Now that I think of it, I have seen that happen, but the reply was inevitably "I have already googled the question to death, without finding any useful results."
CaptSpify 11y ago
My favorite is "Oh, you can find the answer here: http://brokenlink.com" http://brokenlink.com"
- HCIdivision17 11y ago
  At least half of every enterprise software I have used suffers from catastrophic link rot. And when you look at the URLs that do still map or redirect to something marginally on-topic, you just know it's a single API change away from redirecting to "we don't know what you're looking for, try searching here for hundreds of completely off topic (and occasionally broken) links". No, I am not bitter. Learning where their FTP server is and how to navigate, well, that was gold.
- pygy_ 11y ago
  This can often be solved by prepending https://web.archive.org/web/*/ to the now broken URL.
  - kbenson 11y ago
    Hmm, there must be some extension that detects 404 errors and/or server unresponsive and prompts whether you want to check Google's cache or the Internet archive. That browsers haven't already integrated this (with a configurable list of archiving services, like search engines), is actually rather surprising to me.
    - pygy_ 11y ago
      There are extensions with that kind of functionality, but by now I have that sequence hardwired in my fingers.
    - slrz 11y ago
      There is: Resurrect Pages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pages/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag... https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages
    - 11y ago
martin-adams 11y ago
This EXACTLY!

Or when you find a thread where someome is asking the question and the only response is by some wise guy telling him to "search". And of course, searching keeps pointing you back to the same thread.

fla 11y ago

No no, The very _worse_ thing is when there is only one answer saying he found a solution but doesn't provide any information.

stuaxo 11y ago
Also, when 4 years later you come back to the thread to find it is was you, asking the question before.
- craigching 11y ago
  haha! OMG, that has happened to me before!
- david-given 11y ago
  On the plus side, the last time this happened to me, I discovered that someone had posted a really useful answer to my question which helped solve me problem. The person who had posted the answer was, of course, also me.
  - dekhn 11y ago
    this is working as intended; the web is an external memory.
- SEJeff 11y ago
  My experience is that said person coming back to my thread is a coworker. Then they tell me they can't get away from me and even after they try to find something on their own I helped them fix it. Quite amusing

krylon 11y ago

Mmmh, that has never happened to me. That is just plain mean. Now that I think of it, I have seen that happen, but the reply was inevitably "I have already googled the question to death, without finding any useful results."

CaptSpify 11y ago

My favorite is "Oh, you can find the answer here: http://brokenlink.com" http://brokenlink.com"

HCIdivision17 11y ago
At least half of every enterprise software I have used suffers from catastrophic link rot. And when you look at the URLs that do still map or redirect to something marginally on-topic, you just know it's a single API change away from redirecting to "we don't know what you're looking for, try searching here for hundreds of completely off topic (and occasionally broken) links". No, I am not bitter. Learning where their FTP server is and how to navigate, well, that was gold.
pygy_ 11y ago
This can often be solved by prepending https://web.archive.org/web/*/ to the now broken URL.
- kbenson 11y ago
  Hmm, there must be some extension that detects 404 errors and/or server unresponsive and prompts whether you want to check Google's cache or the Internet archive. That browsers haven't already integrated this (with a configurable list of archiving services, like search engines), is actually rather surprising to me.
  - pygy_ 11y ago
    There are extensions with that kind of functionality, but by now I have that sequence hardwired in my fingers.
  - slrz 11y ago
    There is: Resurrect Pages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pages/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag... https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages
  - 11y ago

martin-adams 11y ago

This EXACTLY!