[–]▶ No.890644>>892078 >>892693 >>894159 >>894718 >>901775 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]
>find thread on forum that seems to have my exact problem
>it's marked as solved
>PM sent :^)
Why is this still the fucking case? What could possibly be so secret that you need to send it as a PM?
▶ No.890670>>890733
I'll send you an e-mail with the answer.
▶ No.890763
PM'd you the answer, bro!
▶ No.890771
▶ No.890775>>890805
>Spend hours trying to diagnose my specific problem
>Nobody else on the planet seems to be having my exact issues
>End up on page 5 of Google search results on some obscure forum with a post from 2008 with my problem finally
>"I fixed it thanks guys!" [Thread Closed you may not reply at this time]
WHAT WAS THE ANSWER! TELL ME!
▶ No.890805>>892067
>>890775
>Google
>>890781
>xkcd
It's time for both of you to go back.
▶ No.892067>>892071
▶ No.892069
Actual quotations from the Arch Linux BBS:
<nvm i fixed it
>Could you elaborate on how you fixed your issue for anyone else in your situation?
<no
▶ No.892071>>892074
>>892067
Well considering it took you 3 days to respond to me. You must have been somewhere else in the meantime. I suggest you leave 8chan and spend more time wherever you were from now on.
▶ No.892074
>>892071
i was on reddit and pointed out this thread to some anons over there, so expect company.
▶ No.892078
▶ No.892693
>>890644 (OP)
The goal was to game Google with SEO techniques to get you to click and thus hopefully view the banner ads deployed on the site, and have your IP collected.
▶ No.893881>>893892 >>894731
>look for fixes to problem
>obscure forum post has it as an attachment
>attachments require signup to download
>site has frozen it's signups permanently
▶ No.893886>>894116 >>894117
>looking for anything
>find it on an obscure forum
>requires images to make sense
>pic related
▶ No.893892>>894016
>>893881
Check bugmenot.com or login2.me for shared logins and hope you get lucky.
▶ No.893930>>893985
> have problem
> search online and find lots of complicated, unsatisfying solutions
> decide the problem is not worth the trouble
> declare the problem never existed in the first place
> delete the software or throw away the hardware that had the problem
> find other thing
▶ No.893977>>893985 >>897848 >>900765 >>901498 >>901773
>no answers on your own distro's forums
>everything startpage turns up is specific to ubuntu or arch
▶ No.893985>>893995 >>901144
>>893930
>search for error code online
>tons of hits from retard babbies making threads on forums/leddit complaining 'it dosent werk fix pls'
>instead of actual fix proposed solutions vary from reinstalling to system restore to nuking OS and starting from scratch
>marked as solved
>>893977
That's not bad at all compared to being left completely in the dark. At least you have a starting point and can probably get shit to work if you put some elbow grease into it.
▶ No.893995>>901144
>>893985
>>893985
>hey I have a problem pls help
>why don't you reinstall the OS?
>well but I don't fucking want to help me fix my problem
<or conversely someone else comes in and says that
>why wouldn't you want to reinstall? it's easy and takes five seconds!
▶ No.894016
>>893892
>forum have banned all bugmenot user account
>every signup requires you to go through google botnet capcha.
▶ No.894116>>894142 >>894148
>>893886
prefix image URL with web.archive.org/web/
it works pretty often.
only 90's fags will remember this:
[tor users can't post images]
https://a.pomfe.co/rvmma.png
▶ No.894117>>894142
>>893886
also:
>looking up anything online that leads to forum
>come to forum 10 page forum thread
>50% of people who posted in the thread are banned, and they all have posts from 500-1000-10000 or more
▶ No.894142
>>894117
>result points to post that seems helpful
>search result sends you to page 87/2389 of the forum instead
>thread is not in the page (or the next 10 pages)
Also:
>find thread on problem
>"I solved it by following the instructions on $thread"
>go to link
>"Invalid Thread specified. If you followed. a valid link, please notify the administrator"
>>894116
>imageshack
>not tripod
▶ No.894147
Anyone have the screencap about being banned from a forum for forgetting to warm the towel? I think it had a reaction image with "Let go" on it. Could've sworn that I had it but I guess not.
▶ No.894148>>901548
>>894116
>tor users can't post images
>link is behind cloudflare
?
▶ No.894159>>894169 >>900558 >>901553
>>890644 (OP)
>forum
Why again did forums die?
How many forums do you still visit regularly?
How many do you post in at least semi-regularly?
How often do you find traditional message boards in your search results nowadays?
▶ No.894169
>>894159
Forums for linux distros and bug tracking are still a thing.
And older forums do still exist but are just plagued with inactivity.
▶ No.894204
Eh, there's a lot of gaming forums still around where people post every day. But they probably have much lower pririty than facebook and places that pay money to get listed in web search.
▶ No.894718>>901556
>>890644 (OP)
>looking up problem in forum
>specific thread has exactly this problem
>somehow this person has the problem you do and is asking it
<"Why did you not use the search function? clearly it's not that diffcult to use it."
>no other posts.
>search this problem in the forums
<all these fucking garbage results
>add quotes around the specific problem
<you must wait 30 seconds to search
>wait
>reinput the query
the post with your problem and the condescending dogfucker telling said poster to use the search button is literally the only thread with this exact problem
▶ No.894731
>>893881
>look for fixes to problem
>obscure forum post has it linked
>It goes to megaupload
▶ No.896055
>program doesn't launch
>stdout/stderr silent
>enable CRYPTIC_ENV_VAR=1
>ld.so: cannot find shitlib.so
fugg :D
▶ No.896068>>900781
>forum has moderator with nothing better to do than close threads that are "solved"
>same forum deletes threads for begin "double posts"
>Power hungry moderator yells at everyone to use the search engine
>search engine always produces garbage results makes you wait 60 seconds between attempts
▶ No.897848>>901538
>>893977
<uses meme OSes
<surprised when there aren't enough people using your OS to have your specific problem
▶ No.900558>>900559
>>894159
I visit two, one very small (Salix forum), and menstennisforums. I don't know why they died? I think they are better than anything invented after.
▶ No.900559
>>900558
But one reason could be too heavy moderation in most of them.
▶ No.900765>>901773
>>893977
It's almost as if spreading the linux userbase across a million autistic pointless obscure operating systems is counter-productive or something.
▶ No.900781
>>896068
>crack a casual joke about Hillary's emails to add color to a post
>banned
▶ No.901144
How about this one?
> Use search engine to find solutions, come upon forum post that matches my problem
< Hurr durr, y u no use Google? Closed
> Fucking shit you cucksucking faggot, that's exactly how I found this piece of shit thread!
>>893995
>>893985
Oh right, those assholes who recommend re-installing the OS. That's like burning your entire house down and rebuilding it just because you have have a leaking pipe.
▶ No.901498>>901501 >>901560
>>893977
I made my bed when I installed Void Pony/Linux on my PS4. Grow a pair and stop being a nigger.
▶ No.901538
>>897848
>uses popular OS (in other words: meme os)
>cant solve own problems
>cant find "copy X into registry" solution for problem
▶ No.901548
>>894148
cuckflare no longer seems to block you if you use tor's user-agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
must be le advanced risk model based WAF filtering or some shit
▶ No.901553
>>894159
0 because they're all full of autistic mods/admins who ban you for saying nigger and block le evil IP addresses
▶ No.901556
>>894718
>want to use forum search
>IP is banned
>need JS
>solve our special snowflake captcha that doesnt work
>solve recaptcha which hasnt worked since around 2006
>etc
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▶ No.901613>>901919
>have a problem
>run program as admin
>problem solved
feels good to be a win KEK
▶ No.901773
>>893977
>implying there's a difference between his distro, ubuntu and arch
>>900765
how is it counter productive?
▶ No.901775
>>890644 (OP)
I have literally never seen this in my life
▶ No.901919
>>901613
>having problem
>run program as admin
>it deletes system32
>problem solved