>"Please disregard this message, I figured out the issue."

>Look up a old issue to fix something.
>Endless topics of moderators shutting down conversation and saying "this has been answered already"
>People getting into arguments about stupid shit.
>People saying that the issue was fixed in another thread or website and links to a defunct website or topic.

I get so annoyed by that crap, especially when moderators lock a topic for no reason.

"Private message me for the solution"
"Post was made on 25th of July 2004"

>>61064841
>Please don't necrobump topics in the future.
>Closing.

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>download this file to fix it
>megaupload link

>please login to view links
>links are dead anyway

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>>61064841
>We've released an official solution for this issue, please refer to the support download page
>404

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

>>61065215
>This page has been moved or deleted

I'M CALLING YOU OUT CITRIX

>>61064970
I hate the necropost meme so much

>works fine on my machine

>>61065195
>please login to view links
>megaupload.com
>rapidshare.de

>Hi guys I've got [x] problem, I'm wondering if anyone else as run into this issue?
>Thread locked.
>MOD EDIT: User was banned for failing to adhere to community rules. One line post is not allowed and is a bannable offense.

>lookup windows server 2016 question
>microsoft article
>it still is for server 2003
>it has completely changed ever since
>they've never updated the article ever and there is no new article

>Poster 1: How do you do this thing?
>Poster 2: I sent ya a PM.
>Poster 1: Thx ;-)
>Mod: This question has been resolved and the thread has been locked.

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>"here is how you can fix the issue"
>15 people thanking him
>it doesn't work for you

>Look up problem
>The answer to your problem is available at this link
>404

>you can read another 2 free articles this month

>news website has a "quote of the day" hacked in that shows up every time

>autoplaying videos with sound

>"the home page was updated, do you want to visit it now?"

>news website redirects to main page after some minutes of inactivity

>>61064841
>hey guys i have this [exactly the same problem as I have]
>>*This post was edited by automatic GPL licenced free and oper source script that protects users from doxxing*
>>>Wow, thanks!!! That solved everything

>>61064902
gotta show off that epeen

>>61065368

GOD DAMN IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>61064902
And people getting all pissy over bumping old threads with a relevant post.

>>61064919
this

>>>/v/

>google a problem
>first result is someone telling you to google it

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>find exact issue I am having on Microsoft official help forums
>he has given a clear description of what it is
>official Microsoft helper going back and fourth with the guy giving him useless "help"
>have you tried the troubleshooter?
>try using Windows Restore to go back?
>other useless shit

These kinds of "helpers" are truly the worst

>>61065790

what does the original post have to do with video games?

>>61065825
literally had this exact thought the other day

they have a copy paste message for when they first respond

do they get paid?

god i hope not

>>61065303
>.de
nazi

>>61064970
if you go to a forum that enforces this rule: stop going, the mods are fags
lucklily, the only traditional phpbb forum I visit regularly doesn't care one bit, you'll find threads from like 2004 get bumped on occasion and everyone has a good laugh when someone replies to a 12+yo post like it was recent instead of bitching

>>61065825
it's like they're paid to make people lose patience

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>>61064841
>>61064902
>>61064919
>>61064970
>>61065163
>>61065195
>>61065215
>>61065260
>>61065274
>>61065303
>>61065368
>>61065477
>>61065624
>>61065635
>>61065646
>>61065663
>>61065703
>>61065742
>>61065809
>>61065825
>just use the search function, god damnit!
>close

>parked domain
>added robots.txt so the old contents are blocked from the internet archive

>register to view links
>register to download attachments

>arabian/russian capcha

>You have 3 more tries to login

>>61065909
i create a login that goes to a shitty spam email address i created that i never check unless its to get a confirmation link

>have to suck admins dick for years to get access to the super secret file server and forum

>company decides to close site or community without any warning

>want to download driver
>shitty scam website only lets you download their botnet installer that downloads the file
>open same page in firefox and it only offers the real download link, without the botnet

>>61065884
Your post wasn't good enough to warrant multiquoting. Abuse of the quote feature is against site policies. I'm locking this thread.

>>61065989
>wasnt good enough

on forums where this happens, thats how you know you shouldn't return

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>tfw haven't had to deal with this shit in 3 years since buying a Mac
Linux isn't worth it. Windows is a joke. You know what to do.

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IF you want to do tech support you have to deal with repetitive questions. You shouldn't be a mod of an irc channel or anything like that unless you are ready to answer the same questions eternally.

>find post with exactly the same problem you have
>"This thread is a duplicate of this one. Thread locked"
>other post has nothing to do with the first one

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> make thread to get help with issue
> "This thread has been locked. Search the forum's before making a thread. This is your first and last warning."
> Find a thread that's somewhat related to my issue.
> Read through the old posts. 99% or the posts are "wrks 4 me ;)".
> see that some faggot highjacked the thread with a totally different issue. OP's issue never resolved.
> Post a reply asking for help because I have an issue almost identical to the OP's
> "DO NOT necro threads. You are banned from posting for 335hrs and 59mins."

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>filly operational, active website
>make thread about an issue i couldn't find anywhere after hours of searching
>use the search function. locked and suspended.
Forum moderators are fucking faggots.

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>>61064919
>when you pm them and they actually respond

>known solutions for your problem are x y z
>none of them work

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>>61065703

forbes?

>>61064902
Forum moderators are pretty much the lowest form of life, right down there with rapists and pedos

>>61067477
Most amazing feel ever
>guitar song on YouTube
>in description he says email him for his tabs
>video is like 5-7 years old
>email him
>he actually fucking sends it to me like 3 weeks later

>>61065891
whose dumb fucking retarded idea was it for archive to not only obey robots.txt, but fucking retroactively so if some cocksock bought a domain and blocked it you cant even look up old unblocked data. fucking retards i swear.

>>61064902
>>61064919
>>61065163
>>61065195


fucking this

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>>61064841
>pm sent

>>61064919
> post "did you ever fix this problem"
> mods get mad for necrobump
> 1 week ban

>visit porn site
>ad goes full screen
>repeated pop ups
>speakers blaring "CLICK THIS AD TO CLOSE THIS PAGE"

advertisers are the lowest form of being

>>61065884
>please log in to search

>>61068296
>>61067702
>>61067314
what's the deal with forum mods and necrobumping anyway? It never seemed like a big deal to me
especially if they don't want you making new threads

>>61068338
> please wait 1-3 days for a mod to verify your account before you're allowed to post

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>Search ignores words less than 4 characters
>Have a problem with vga output resolution

>asked for help for an issue
>no one helped
>egotistical asshole giving the wrong answer and making fun of me asking
>finally solved it
>dont want to post the answer to something I figured out myself

why are you so mad? I asked for help and got trolled, what makes you think I want to help others and post the answer that I worked hard myself for? you must be a moron and a leecher to think I would make your life easier when you made mine harder

>>61068306
The only time I've been interested in webdev was when a porn pop-under made a fake windows notification appear and I was intensely curious how they did that.

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also this

61066555
No (You) for you

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>Thread marked as [RESOLVED]
>OP says he'll post back with results
>Never delivers

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>try to get help on an anime image board
>technology section
>ask question
>THIS IS NO TECH SUPPORT SITE ALSO FILETERED YOU TRIPFAG

>>61068477
On some forums, like the arch forum, it doesn't make sense to necrobump since its a rolling release, so the system most likely changed within year or two to a point where old answers aren't really that useful and only create confusion.

Thats like posting about boot error in a 2006 SysvInit thread

>>61066555
this desu

>>61065825
Maybe it's because I have js disabled most of the time but the official MS help forums have the shittest layout I've seen. The 'solution' is displayed at least three times and it's usually 'try uninstalling and reinstalling'

>>61072225
>>>/sqt/

>>61064902
arch linux: the experience

>You filled out the registration form too quickly, out system things you're a bot. Please try again in 15 minutes

>>61068477

To be fair, 9/10 times some idiot bumps a six year old thread to say "I'm having this problem too", they clearly aren't, because the original issue has been patched.

I maintain an open source product and I often see people replying to three year old closed issues saying "I'm having this issue". And you say "are you running a three year old version?", and they say "no". And then you point out that the thread they are on detailed a patch that was released, and an OP that confirmed it fixed the issue. So no you do not "also have the problem".

>>61072387
That's stupid.

It may have been a regression in one of the versions that the OP skipped from then until the latest version.

>>61064841
>Microsoft Answers
>Someone asks about a well known bug in Windows 10
>First answer is a "marked correct" response from an MVP saying "please run sfc /scannow"
>Multiple people chime in confirming issue
>Provide steps to replicate with 100% accuracy
>MVP post is, due to forum design, shown to you again every 2-3 posts
>Angry people going "sfc has never fucking fixed anything, can you please provide another response"
>Response from MVP saying "thank you for your confirmation issue is resolved"
>Eight fucking months worth of "isn't this fixed yet? What are you doing Microsoft???"
>eight month old MVp response keeps getting interspersed with replies

>>61065909
>>You have 3 more tries to login

Actually I had this a few weeks ago with a website

>You have typed your password wrong once. Your account is now locked for 24 hours

>>61067766
Actually Internet Archive controversially decided to stop giving a fuck quite recently.

>>61072435

The first issue was "does not compile with a really old version of gcc from CentOS4" and the new issue was "does not compile against OpenSSL1.something".

The error output was totally different obviously but these guys just go "oh compile error, it's the same problem".

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finally an excuse to post this

>>61072552
Not really/

>>61064841
>Please login to download attachment
>Forum is invite only

>>61072552
>50-75°C for a laptop
It's fine
>Thermo Glue
my sides

>>61066594
Would be handy to have a file of QnA pasta.

>>61066594
Sounds like the only legit use of an """""AI""""" bot.

>>61065945
BetaArchive?

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Let's be fucking honest, stupid people are way more annoying than powertripping moderator manchildren.

Unless we're talking about manchild videogames when you come to a forum everyone assumes you're familiar with the absolute basics instead of asking mundane questions that could be answered with a search engine over and over again.

>>61064841
>Office licence disappears from account
>call Microsoft support
>after half an hour of responding to robot get to speak with real person
>"the licence is there sir, you have to see it"
>"I don't"
>"well that's impossible"
>support hangs
>repeat another 3 times to get to a manager of support and finally solve it

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I love how social media completely killed the forums. You have all those admins and mods that poured literal years of their lives, mostly for free into them, chasing the illusion of power. Suddenly, it all ended, people moved on the moment viable alternatives showed up, it turned out that forums were never good.

Imagine how salty those admins/mods have to be right now.

>>61073301
Forums are social media with a topic

>>61073301
Their fault for doing it for free™

>>61073301
I love how fools think forums and social media are comparable.
The level of information persistence alone is enough to guess that they're totally different horses. Social media is what "off topic" category was on most forums. I don't think anyone ever missed them being empty though.
Wipe the drool of your chin kid.

>how do i do thing
>why would you want to do that?

>>61073465
Stackoverflow is the worst for this
>I'm having trouble with this thing, heres what I've tried
>You shouldn't be doing that, do this other unrelated thing instead
>40 replies agreeing

>anon posts obscure question i know the answer to along with ribbit frog
>call him a dumb frogposter and don't answer his question
feels good

>>61073301
Forums >>>>>>>>>> Social Media

>>61073301
Forum are still running strong over here

t. 3rd shithole dweller

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>>61070040
>what makes you think I want to help others and post the answer that I worked hard myself for?
I was like this once, then about 10 years later had the same problem but couldn't remember how I fixed it, first result in google was my old thread. You can't even imagine this feeling.

>>61070040
You should talk to a shrink anon, that doesn't sound healthy.

>>61073667
I was pissed off at the new scroll/fling speeds in mozilla android for about the 20th time so I decided to search online. Came across someone posting the same problem in the same way I would have asked the question, it's on google groups so you can see the start of their email address, it matches mine.

Start to wonder if I've got some long standing mental problems that I don't know about it. For about 60 seconds my world was changed. Scroll further down the thread, has his full email in his sig, it's not me. Thank fuck. Very very odd feeling.

>proxy up
>make account
>necro bump, get banned and thread locked
>make new account
>make new thread
>explain issue
>post a link to old thread and say there was never a solution and the thread is locked anyways
It's like you guys have never had to get information out of shitty forums before.

>>61073789
USE THE SEARCH.

Banned.

that's how that would go

>>61064841
>This has been answered, use search
Which fucking search terms?

>>61064841
What the fuck are forum moderators anyway?

>post question
>veteran forum member, more beast than man at this point, shits on you in a passive-aggressive pseudo friendly way
I hate these assholes

>You must have 10 posts to view this post
>You must Thank this post to view this post
>Your account must be 10 days old before it can post
>An admin will approve your account before you can post

Welcome to the 2000's phpbb forum

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>>61073301

>people moved on the moment viable alternatives showed up

Yes, that's called creative destruction and one of the main pros of capitalism. Out of the ruins of the old something new will rise, kinda like a phoenix if you wanna go all poetic.

>>61074211

edit: but yes i concur, social media is in no way comparable to forums. forums will always exist, perhaps in a different form but still a forum.

>serach problem in google
>first result is a closed thread with a moderator responding "just search on google"

>Hello I problem this the am
>Sorry my poor English
>Moderator response: hello I also the not the English but if you a commanding the line problem the fix
>Yes that am work for me thanked you
Meanwhile, actual English-speakers can never follow these threads ;_;

>>61068306
I only browse porn using vm's now, too risky and my interest safety senses go out the window when I'm horny.

>>61074357
What I find funny is when a non-english speaker actually solves the problem (in broken english) far better then native speakers and without being a asshole about it.

I've had this happen several times.

>post question on diyaudio forums
>AndrewT turns up and does everything he can to not be helpful
>treats people like a turd on the bottom of his shoe
>people still thank him for it

Forum big shots are all about ego.

>>61074529
Accounts were a mistake

>>61064841
>Searching for a rare WPF pluing that actually werks.
>Full documentation will be avaliable shortly.
>Last update: May 2011

>>61065924
Why not use a 10minute email?

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>>61074516

why would non-native speakers be less courteous and knowledgeable than native speakers?

sure is "t. murican" in here

>>61065646
---reload cookies---

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>>61064841
>Search up critical issue
>Bug report from 10 years ago
>A few posts discussing and finding the exact cause of the issue
>One post by a different guy every couple of years saying "This issue still exists, why has it not been fixed yet?"
>Bug report still open

>You have hit your daily view limit of 10 threads. Please sign in.

>>61065635
This, it happens way too frequently

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>time between 2000 and 2007 is the same amount of time as between 2010 and 2017

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>had an issue regarding a mod for the elder scrolls IV: oblivion
>searched nexus forums, lots of other people with the issue
>managed to fix the issue myself while messing around with the mod in the creation kit
>don't post the fix on nexus forums because they once banned me, permanently, for saying some girl's mod was a ripoff of another mod

fuck you nexus

>moderator
>Pleb anime picture
>5k + posts
>Location : Behind you
>Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you to towers
>Use the search function !!!!!&&1

>>61079360
fuck you

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>tutorial for frequently-updated or forked open source software
>options menu looks completely different
>features in tutorial aren't there in your copy

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>"Please login to use the search feature."
>"Sorry, your search was not specific enough! Please try again."
>"Sorry, you are using the search function too quickly. Please wait 60 seconds before trying again again.

>>61064902
>look up an old issue

Fixed that for you

>>61068519
>please make a post in the newbie section introducing yourself before you can use the search function

>>61081553
isn't that the guy from lost?

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>"I fixed the issue using this random script I found"
>megaupload link

>>61081702
"spam detected, please wait 30 minutes before trying again"
>"no results found"

>you did not provide enough information for us to fix your issue please post a full log of the error along woth your PC specs

>poster is asking the most simple thing that anyone could answer

I dont wven post on forums and this irks me to no end

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>>61072225

>>61081863
>literally delet system32
stupid linuxfag

>>61081844
Is this real ?

>50 pages of people complaining about the same issue
>Microsoft do nothing

When they broke the unimodem wave driver in the first Win10 major update. Never worked since and I had to buy an answerphone machine instead of using the perfectly functional (before the update) software answerphone (with personalized messages tied to caller ID). Even the developer complained. Nada.

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xda-developers "android development" sections
>ROM maintainer: "we encourage you to share any bugs with us in this thread!"
>You must have at least 10 posts to write replies in this forum
WHAT the FUCK do I need to do? Post my homescreen in the general section of my device? Argue with retards which phone case is the best, just to help out devs or ask for help with the ROM?

>>61072552
>network genius
>windows awards
>2000 posts
I wonder how much retardation he's spread and the destruction he has caused.

>>61081938
no.

>>61065870
one of my favorite activities when i still used to post on forums was to find few year old threads that i knew would bait new replies, e.g. asking technical questions, and bump them. without fail people would start replying as if it were a new thread before someone would come along and point out that the thread is a few years old. if i got lucky, sometimes they would even try to argue with the old responses or among themselves.

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>>61073504
You're the worst

>>61074011
This

>>61082334
dumb frogposter

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>>61082377

See somebody has prob.
Why I just solved this 3 days ago.
Google prob.
Finally find the solution on page 37 of results.
Post reply.
Sorry, noobs can't post links here.

>>61082151
>Please report any illegal content
>You must create an account to report
OK, I won't bother.

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>>61074529

>>61072552
>thermo glue

>>61082639
>4:56PM
Go to sleep, anon

>>61073503
>how do I do X without using Y
>lol just use Y

It's annoying as fuck when Y is 50 GB and you only want one feature from it, or when Y directly conflicts with another program or with the device itself.

>>61082736
>he doesn't know the difference between AM and PM

>>61082842
>he doesn't know NEETs go to bed at 12PM

>>61082933
Sorry to break this to you but I'm currently attending university so that disqualifies me from being a Neet.

>>61083989
We can wait a year or two, don't worry.

>>61084128
I'm fine but I'd rather not.

>>61073301
>people moved on the moment viable alternatives showed up,
Not really. Everyone who used forums still has a couple they visit from time to time.

What happened is a lot of new people came in who never used forums in the first place.

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>>61074011
>his sycophantic followers post outdated reaction images

>>61074516
Indians are the gods of Windows XP patches and hacks.

>>61082151
[ULTRA][UBAR][GCC968.2][Lolnaro][NEEDMOARTAGS] 1337 krennel

I'm not respondible for loss of break device

Here is my 1337 krennel with includired eyepatches above
-use UBAR tollchain
-use lolnao tollchin
-double toadsquin for 1337 compilez
-patches to Linux 7593
-freezeMyDevice govenor
-Overclock AND underclock for ultra cool overclock
>gpu ovrrclock for overheat
>frequency raise for tschernobyl


changerlock:
>update 1.9
Almost everything works
>update 1.8
boots now

bugs
reboots after 2 secondz
uncontrlolable app FC
grenade mode doez not works nao
you tell me ;)

Sorry for my english ;^)

[DONATE]
by helping donating you buy me a new car, so i can stop to pretend i know what i am doing

>>61064841
So why keep going there you stupid fuck?

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>Google problem I have
>Forum post on some tech site about it
> OP: "I have X problem! Halp!!!" etc etc
>Forum user 1: "I know about this, I'll send you a fix in a pm"
>Forum user 2: " Why would you do that Forum user 1? Why not just post the fix here so it can help others too?"
>Forum user 1: "I suppose you're right, here's how to fix your issue..."
>mfw

>>61084387
>changerlock:
>>update 1.9
>Almost everything works
>>update 1.8
>boots now
I keked

>get strange compiler error
>google it
>1 result
>someone asked about it on a Japanese forum in 2006
>there's an answer
>it works
Thank you Long Wang whoever you are

>fix some old issue by changing a setting
>eventually get new problem
>only solution is to revert that change

It's absolutely horrible when the timespan between 1 and 2 is multiple months; the workaround can take forever.