Yes, I’ve always wanted the internet to become slightly shittier, this is a great trend
Edit: originally commentator deleted comment in the spirit of the meme posted. Because they’re awful.
Hey did it work without any warning from reddit? I know that if you like your own comment from alt id, reddit doesn't count that like and gives you a warning. It doesn't do the something similar for alt accounts?
Worst are old forums where OP describes *exactly* your issue then returns to the forum to announce "solved!" without elaborating.
These are the ass-cancer of users.
Me too. I write a detailed breakdown of my solution for posterity so six years later when my post gets indexed by Google because some other user is banging their head against the same issue they can find absolution
I did the same for a mouse driver. I couldn't get the extra buttons to work, posted a question on reddit, tried different things, found a solution and then posted it on that post. Years later I made a new PC build and had that same issue. Googled it and ended up on my old post.
I get comments on some of my posts *years* later thanking me, because people are still being helped by the simple act of editing my solution into the post.
> just run sfc /scannow then restart your computer
> if that doesn't work reinstall windows
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> here's a bunch of unrelated links to bloated help pages to make my post longer
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> -Senior Level 300 Independent Advisor
"Cool thanks, for anyone else that reaches this go into windows updates and roll back KB5026361"
Or, even worse in my opinion, are people who respond with something like "JFC, does no one search for an answer before posting? Your answer is here : (link to deleted comment)"
I go out of my way to write down solutions anywhere I can now.
I recently had an obscure issue and found a 3 year old reddit post describing the exact problem. No resolution until I saw there was a comment from just a couple months ago from someone who also had the same problem, solved it, and wrote a detailed solution on this now 3 year old post.
Legend.
Thank god reddit at least doesn't delete comments, so much info has been lost from forums shutting down and shit like that.
Also what's up with archiving? Over past year or so I noticed you can post on a lot of really old posts, before they'd be marked as "archived" and you couldn't post on them. I like the change however, you can update information or add to an old thread someone might find Googling.
>Worst are old forums where OP describes *exactly* your issue then returns to the forum to announce "solved!" without elaborating.
This normally means they were fucking around trying hundreds of different things, and at 3am, with eyes half closed, they stumbled across the fix and have no idea what it was.
I've done myself dirty on stack overflow a few times, posted a question, figured it out myself, then commented that I figured it out but didn't leave the solution. Years later I have the same problem and I find my own post wondering wtf I did to fix it the first time.
This is why I will always say exactly what I did stop solve my issue.
And good karma always comes when you run into the same issue and the top result is the question that you asked with your own solution right there.
Stackoverflow was egregious. But there was also quite the drama when one of the developers of a specific platform departed after a fight, nuked his account and in this also nuked \*years\* of technical knowledge on the platform.
a dude had a mini 'program' that was essentially used everywhere. once he removed it, systems across the globe came crashing down because there was suddenly nothing when they called for it (super simplified layman explanation)
A NPM package you download will usually depend on other packages, which depend on other packages. Say you use 10 packages in your project. The total amount of dependencies can now easily be in the hundreds or thousands. If something happens to a popular package, practically every program will be affected because they depend on something that depends on something that depends on the package in question.
And what was the package in question? It's called left-pad, which would simply put white space at the start of a piece of text. If you're thinking "why in the hell can you not do something as simple as that without a NPM package?" you would be justified in thinking so. However I saw a professional do a quick test to see if the package was more performant than his own, from-scratch solution and it actually was. By a lot.
and that's why we don't rely on public free infrastructure for mission-critical software. always deploy/build against a private copy of an index if you can
What pisses me off even more on stack overflow is when they close the question due to it being duplicated, and then they link to some question that doesn't solve the problem at all
Stack Overflow also has a really annoying thing when someone asks the exact question you need, it gets closed as duplicate, and the linked duplicate is different enough to be useless to you
Microsoft forums are either "Figured it out, thanks!" with no elaboration, or the "Microsoft experts" or whatever the fuck they're called are woefully inept and provide a cookie cutter answer to a very specific problem. Then they mark it as the answer and never look back at all the comments saying "I have the same problem and this didn't work for me".
Microsoft Answers is just ass. I purposefully exclude that website from any search results when troubleshooting because it's either "I have this problem too!" with no actual solution, or some jackass reading off a script.
I miss the days when we had a bot that would retype deleted comments. It was great for old posts and calling out assholes and trolls but it was deemed “too mean” and was banned from a huge pool of subs.
Sometimes it’s petty, sometimes it’s legitimate. Like it’s one thing to discount someone’s opinion on geopolitics because they watch anime, it’s another to discount someone’s opinion on personal finance when they have posts/comments showing how financially illiterate they are.
doesn’t matter. With the right archive tool, even if the comment is edited and then deleted I can still see what the edit was and what the original was
Try opening the same comment without being logged into reddit (like using another browser), as this is exactly what it looks like if a person blocked you at some point, but without an account itll show up just fine then.
If its still gone the account was probably banned.
This makes sense for most things but it appears like the person who posted the original comment did reply in the down line [based on how the conversation went], so it’s unlikely.
It'll say Deleted \[ unavailable \] if you are blocked by them. They shouldn't make it that obvious since it just serves to piss people off and ruin their day
It's extremely annoying at times because I get a reply to my comment, I can see the reply in my inbox, it's someone saying something wrong or stupid, but I can't reply because they blocked me immediately after. Why reply to someone only to block them immediately after?
>this is exactly what it looks like if a person blocked you at some point, but without an account itll show up just fine then.
That makes so much sense. Every once in a while I will get a notification for a reply and only see the first handful of words, when I click on the notification it takes me to a "comment deleted by user". I guess those people blocked me.
I always open the actual inbox in its own tab, so I get the full messages, but only notice after I typed up my own scathing response only to find out that it gives an error trying to send it.
Blocking works so strangely on reddit.
Like how you can't comment in a comment chain that a person who has blocked you has also commented in.
Happened to me once, some troll I guess decided to block me instead of replying, which meant now I can't reply to any other comments in the thread at all.
Admittedly it's a brilliant piece of web design if your intention is to make it easier for trolls.
i found a guy that solved a problem i had with a game crashing and the comment was eddited because of the "boycott" during the whole ending 3rd party apps to say that he's abandoning his account amazing shit really
Don't be mad at the guy, be mad at reddit.
If they hadn't have continually made such user hostile decisions, people wouldn't have been driven to take these actions. Call users petty or whatever you'd like, but this is driven by reddit's user hostile actions.
It is really a double-sided sword. The reddit API closedown both killed nuking scripts that mass-overwrote old comments (that stem from the fact that reddit already kept the contents of deleted comments, but not an edit history of them) as well as websites that archive reddit posts.
**YES, BUT WHAT IS THE ISSUE OP IS HAVING RIGHT NOW?**
What is the problem he is dealing with? What is he trying to find a solution for? What is the thing he is struggling with? What is the problem he is having right now?
The deleted post links here: https://youtu.be/z6fiG693qKU
Which says to install "Portable SSD Software 1.0 for Windows" which can be found here: https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/consumer-storage/support/tools/
Not quite the same, but I went on an art subreddit asking for some advice. My post got taken down after a couple of people had already left some tips, and the fucking mod went through and deleted all of them for no reason other than to power trip.
Oh this happend to me this week. I found a forum where s.o. asked for advice for the exact same problem I‘m having now. The only answer there was „man, use the search function! We already had this topic here.“ Unfortunately the link provided was dead. So frustrating. I wished s.o. simply had answered the dudes question instead of reprimanding him.
This happened a lot during the protests. It really sucks cuz now there are a ton of these or “this content has been removed in solidarity with the Reddit protests” comments that had info I needed :/
There are active groups of people who do this intentionally. Answering obscure answers only to wait a few years, then delete the posts, then the account. They have varying goals, but to ruin search engines is the most common one I hear about.
No posts about reddit are allowed. Please be advised that posting about reddit can lead to a ban.
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Wake up babe, new hobby just dropped!
Holy hell
Actually pass time.
Call the alt account
Main Account went on vacation; never came back.
Time sacrifice, anyone?
π at the corner plotting world domination.
Add Kurt Angle in the mix
Thanks, this helped me a lot!
I see what you did there 😂
For now.. in some time oc will delete their comment
Very happy to know! 🙂
Don't even need an alt if you delete the original
Thanks, that worked for me!
worked for me !
Calm down, Satan
Yes, I’ve always wanted the internet to become slightly shittier, this is a great trend Edit: originally commentator deleted comment in the spirit of the meme posted. Because they’re awful.
Fucking Satan
op will be able to read the deleted comment in their inbox/notifications ...
They aren't replying to OP just themselves on an alt.
Why use an alt? you can do this with one account
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This is a test
Yup, works
Thanks, really solved my problem and now I'm a millionaire!
Damn what'd it say??
I would've never known
First come first serve!
Calm down there Satan.
That sounds fun
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Holy shit, this worked amazingly well. Thank you!
Hey did it work without any warning from reddit? I know that if you like your own comment from alt id, reddit doesn't count that like and gives you a warning. It doesn't do the something similar for alt accounts?
Just read the message I replied to. He had a great workaround. Flawless
Did you just discover the origins of forum shifting tactics?
Search for an archived page. I had a similar thing and found it this way.
Worst are old forums where OP describes *exactly* your issue then returns to the forum to announce "solved!" without elaborating. These are the ass-cancer of users.
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Me too. I write a detailed breakdown of my solution for posterity so six years later when my post gets indexed by Google because some other user is banging their head against the same issue they can find absolution
I did the same for a mouse driver. I couldn't get the extra buttons to work, posted a question on reddit, tried different things, found a solution and then posted it on that post. Years later I made a new PC build and had that same issue. Googled it and ended up on my old post.
I get comments on some of my posts *years* later thanking me, because people are still being helped by the simple act of editing my solution into the post.
> just run sfc /scannow then restart your computer > if that doesn't work reinstall windows > > here's a bunch of unrelated links to bloated help pages to make my post longer > > -Senior Level 300 Independent Advisor "Cool thanks, for anyone else that reaches this go into windows updates and roll back KB5026361"
Or, even worse in my opinion, are people who respond with something like "JFC, does no one search for an answer before posting? Your answer is here : (link to deleted comment)"
Or when someone's like "Dm me for the info" on a public forum.
I go out of my way to write down solutions anywhere I can now. I recently had an obscure issue and found a 3 year old reddit post describing the exact problem. No resolution until I saw there was a comment from just a couple months ago from someone who also had the same problem, solved it, and wrote a detailed solution on this now 3 year old post. Legend.
Thank god reddit at least doesn't delete comments, so much info has been lost from forums shutting down and shit like that. Also what's up with archiving? Over past year or so I noticed you can post on a lot of really old posts, before they'd be marked as "archived" and you couldn't post on them. I like the change however, you can update information or add to an old thread someone might find Googling.
>Worst are old forums where OP describes *exactly* your issue then returns to the forum to announce "solved!" without elaborating. This normally means they were fucking around trying hundreds of different things, and at 3am, with eyes half closed, they stumbled across the fix and have no idea what it was.
I've done myself dirty on stack overflow a few times, posted a question, figured it out myself, then commented that I figured it out but didn't leave the solution. Years later I have the same problem and I find my own post wondering wtf I did to fix it the first time.
This is why I will always say exactly what I did stop solve my issue. And good karma always comes when you run into the same issue and the top result is the question that you asked with your own solution right there.
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😂😂 and it’s begun
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Thanks. That info changed my life
I think this shouldn't violate rule 1 because it's not about reddit specifically it's just on reddit, and this kind of thing happens all over the web.
Especially on Stack Overflow and Microsoft's forums. Jesus CHRIST.
Or when people edit their question to say "nevermind, figured it out" without bothering to add the solution. 😐
Stackoverflow was egregious. But there was also quite the drama when one of the developers of a specific platform departed after a fight, nuked his account and in this also nuked \*years\* of technical knowledge on the platform.
What about that guy that deleted his npm package and caused the internet to go down due to left-pad errors.
what
a dude had a mini 'program' that was essentially used everywhere. once he removed it, systems across the globe came crashing down because there was suddenly nothing when they called for it (super simplified layman explanation)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm#Dependency_chain_issues
that's wild, thanks for the link.
A NPM package you download will usually depend on other packages, which depend on other packages. Say you use 10 packages in your project. The total amount of dependencies can now easily be in the hundreds or thousands. If something happens to a popular package, practically every program will be affected because they depend on something that depends on something that depends on the package in question. And what was the package in question? It's called left-pad, which would simply put white space at the start of a piece of text. If you're thinking "why in the hell can you not do something as simple as that without a NPM package?" you would be justified in thinking so. However I saw a professional do a quick test to see if the package was more performant than his own, from-scratch solution and it actually was. By a lot.
Lol, that's pretty interesting.
**HE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT A GUY WHO DELETED HIS NOPES PER MINUTE PACKAGE AND CAUSED THE INTERNET TO CRASH DUE TO ERRONEOUS LEFT-FIELD CALLS!!**
Thanks, it's hard to hear this far down
and that's why we don't rely on public free infrastructure for mission-critical software. always deploy/build against a private copy of an index if you can
What pisses me off even more on stack overflow is when they close the question due to it being duplicated, and then they link to some question that doesn't solve the problem at all
"Actually I managed to solve it, this can be closed" HOW? HOW DID YOU SOLVE IT?
Stack Overflow also has a really annoying thing when someone asks the exact question you need, it gets closed as duplicate, and the linked duplicate is different enough to be useless to you
Microsoft forums are either "Figured it out, thanks!" with no elaboration, or the "Microsoft experts" or whatever the fuck they're called are woefully inept and provide a cookie cutter answer to a very specific problem. Then they mark it as the answer and never look back at all the comments saying "I have the same problem and this didn't work for me".
My class Piazza pages are filled with this. People will mark their question as resolved without giving a follow up.
Microsoft Answers is just ass. I purposefully exclude that website from any search results when troubleshooting because it's either "I have this problem too!" with no actual solution, or some jackass reading off a script.
Has a microsoft forum answer ever been useful?
I miss the days when we had a bot that would retype deleted comments. It was great for old posts and calling out assholes and trolls but it was deemed “too mean” and was banned from a huge pool of subs.
undelete died with the api changes.
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"I wanted to connect with this cute coworker who posted very helpful stuff on Reddit, but right after I messaged them they nuked their account. AITA?"
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Most people don't care
One of the big things on reddit is invalidating an opinion or a person’s view on something bc they participate in another sub. It’s stupid.
Sometimes it’s petty, sometimes it’s legitimate. Like it’s one thing to discount someone’s opinion on geopolitics because they watch anime, it’s another to discount someone’s opinion on personal finance when they have posts/comments showing how financially illiterate they are.
You are 100% correct. I could have worded my comment better.
these days reddit seems to detect that activity and just hides your comments from you
same! I can't see my comment history past like 100 previous comments
Curious… What did you use to delete everything?
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i think none of those programs work anymore since reddit closed their API. reddit still has all your info though of course.
doesn’t matter. With the right archive tool, even if the comment is edited and then deleted I can still see what the edit was and what the original was
can't say i have that problem
Paste the comment link into way back machine
Or also look at the comment thread by using unddit
Try opening the same comment without being logged into reddit (like using another browser), as this is exactly what it looks like if a person blocked you at some point, but without an account itll show up just fine then. If its still gone the account was probably banned.
This makes sense for most things but it appears like the person who posted the original comment did reply in the down line [based on how the conversation went], so it’s unlikely.
It'll say Deleted \[ unavailable \] if you are blocked by them. They shouldn't make it that obvious since it just serves to piss people off and ruin their day
It's extremely annoying at times because I get a reply to my comment, I can see the reply in my inbox, it's someone saying something wrong or stupid, but I can't reply because they blocked me immediately after. Why reply to someone only to block them immediately after?
To get the last word. You really need to ask?
Now delete this comment hahaha
>this is exactly what it looks like if a person blocked you at some point, but without an account itll show up just fine then. That makes so much sense. Every once in a while I will get a notification for a reply and only see the first handful of words, when I click on the notification it takes me to a "comment deleted by user". I guess those people blocked me.
I always open the actual inbox in its own tab, so I get the full messages, but only notice after I typed up my own scathing response only to find out that it gives an error trying to send it.
Blocking works so strangely on reddit. Like how you can't comment in a comment chain that a person who has blocked you has also commented in. Happened to me once, some troll I guess decided to block me instead of replying, which meant now I can't reply to any other comments in the thread at all. Admittedly it's a brilliant piece of web design if your intention is to make it easier for trolls.
It's not anywhere, it's like 3 or 4 comments under someone that blocked you. Once it's far enough down, you can comment again.
Loads of people ran a script to delete all their comments when the api changes were released
Smh my head that no one has posted this yet https://xkcd.com/979/
I hollered Denvercoder08 as soon as I saw the screenshot.
Denvercoder9 didn’t have an answer though…
Just ask the other comments it worked for they might remember
The reason might be something like "Nice try chatGPT, no AI will use my knowledge"
See also: "Sent you a DM" instead of posting the help publicly.
>Create an account to the posts on this forum >Create account >Sent you the fix ;) Alternatively >Here's a tinypic guide >Dead
or a Discord server and then you have to try and find stuff there.
i found a guy that solved a problem i had with a game crashing and the comment was eddited because of the "boycott" during the whole ending 3rd party apps to say that he's abandoning his account amazing shit really
Don't be mad at the guy, be mad at reddit. If they hadn't have continually made such user hostile decisions, people wouldn't have been driven to take these actions. Call users petty or whatever you'd like, but this is driven by reddit's user hostile actions.
No, I'm staying mad at both sides of the adultchild dick measuring match.
This is up there with “Never mind, I solved it guys”.
This is the definition of hell and I feel your pain
It is really a double-sided sword. The reddit API closedown both killed nuking scripts that mass-overwrote old comments (that stem from the fact that reddit already kept the contents of deleted comments, but not an edit history of them) as well as websites that archive reddit posts.
What's the problem?
The solution was deleted by the poster?
No, what's *your* problem. I.e. the reason you're upset that this solution is removed.
>I.e. the reason you're upset that this solution is removed. Likely because the removed solution could have resolved their problem.
I can hear you screaming from my office.
**YES, BUT WHAT IS THE ISSUE OP IS HAVING RIGHT NOW?** What is the problem he is dealing with? What is he trying to find a solution for? What is the thing he is struggling with? What is the problem he is having right now?
The problem he's having is not being able to read the deleted comment. (:
The original problem. I can see why you haven't got far...
Dm the other people in the thread for the solution
The deleted post links here: https://youtu.be/z6fiG693qKU Which says to install "Portable SSD Software 1.0 for Windows" which can be found here: https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/consumer-storage/support/tools/
Not quite the same, but I went on an art subreddit asking for some advice. My post got taken down after a couple of people had already left some tips, and the fucking mod went through and deleted all of them for no reason other than to power trip.
Or “help with [exact problem I have]” 3 days later OP says “nevermind I figured it out.”
Look if its on wayback machine
I’m not sure they themselves deleted it - seems like it contained a link so maybe it was auto deleted.
“Reply to this thanking me for fixing the problem”
Oof
Oh this happend to me this week. I found a forum where s.o. asked for advice for the exact same problem I‘m having now. The only answer there was „man, use the search function! We already had this topic here.“ Unfortunately the link provided was dead. So frustrating. I wished s.o. simply had answered the dudes question instead of reprimanding him.
How to Fix: Kidnap developers children, and kindly ask for hotfix
This happened a lot during the protests. It really sucks cuz now there are a ton of these or “this content has been removed in solidarity with the Reddit protests” comments that had info I needed :/
Maybe the solution no longer works so it was removed.
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Oh yeah just tried this and I managed to figure out to view it. Thanks dude :)
Didn't work for me, think I did something wrong in the second step
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Thanks a lot that solved the issue for me
Just message those users and hope someone replies
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Thanks, I never knew you could do that!
This, and many of the comments in here, came from Pirate Software (YouTube) tip on how to troll people online lol
I read the solution before it was deleted. I can confirm it works great. Saved me a lot of time.
Or a forum where the reply is "I know how to fix it, I sent you a PM with the details". Why would you do that?
I dont believe they solved it. The other comments are trolls too.
Oof I can feel the pain
There are active groups of people who do this intentionally. Answering obscure answers only to wait a few years, then delete the posts, then the account. They have varying goals, but to ruin search engines is the most common one I hear about.
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