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death of the ruleternet (pawb.social)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 5 months ago (8 children)

"Why are you trying to do [x]? Have you tried doing [y] instead?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"But why do you want that?" should be an automatic time-out on most Q&A sites. Especially anything technical.

I don't need to convince you to make my decisions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A lot of the time, the fundamental issue is the lack of information provided by the poster. I've seen so many threads where the provided information just isn't enough, and they don't react to any of the questions at all.

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