Or, another annoying one, you find a thread, solve it yourself, and can’t post because the thread is locked for whatever dumb reason. You make a new thread and it never gets traffic from search engines. Only the old one. So nobody ever solves the problem because some mod is worried about necroing, oh the horror.
Comment on xkcd #3163: Repair Video
Godort@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
This is the exact opposite of this comic
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 days ago
bob_lemon@feddit.org 4 days ago
The new thread also gets closed as a duplicate of the old thread
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Or worse, “nevermind, fixed it”.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 4 days ago
Skipcast@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is where wayback machine excels
Zink@programming.dev 4 days ago
Thanks for posting this, because I started getting bummed thinking about how much of a great resource the full reddit history would be to just have online, were that whole thing not ruined gut bad reasons by bad people.
But then you reminded me about the good people.
I found the helpers, Mr Rogers!