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This thread is textbook trolling to get an answer: ``` - I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to trol

This thread is textbook trolling to get an answer: ``` - I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem. - For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me. - Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better. - ion has quit IRC (Ping timeout) - brings a tear to my eye... :') so true.. - So if you're starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I did to get help. Start the sentence with "Linux is gay because it can't do XXX like Windows can". You will have PhDs running to tell you how to solve your problems. ```

fxtentacle 4y ago
Now it's only a matter of time until someone automates that using GPT3. I mean we already have AI-automated "email trolling" where they use GPT3 to produce an introduction sentence which suggests that the sender took at least the time to look at my homepage before bothering me, but in reality it's all automated and they are just sending more personal-looking spam than the next guy.
blooalien 4y ago
I find it highly offensive on multiple levels that A) people think that sort of behavior is necessary or acceptable, and B) that there are people out there who reinforce that belief by being the ass-hat who answers valid questions with "RTFM!". If someone has trouble understanding man pages, that's reasonable. Turn them on to other (more easily parsed by "average folk") sources of the same information, and request that they "pay it forward" in similar fashion.

fxtentacle 4y ago

Now it's only a matter of time until someone automates that using GPT3. I mean we already have AI-automated "email trolling" where they use GPT3 to produce an introduction sentence which suggests that the sender took at least the time to look at my homepage before bothering me, but in reality it's all automated and they are just sending more personal-looking spam than the next guy.

blooalien 4y ago

I find it highly offensive on multiple levels that A) people think that sort of behavior is necessary or acceptable, and B) that there are people out there who reinforce that belief by being the ass-hat who answers valid questions with "RTFM!". If someone has trouble understanding man pages, that's reasonable. Turn them on to other (more easily parsed by "average folk") sources of the same information, and request that they "pay it forward" in similar fashion.