Internet being Internet
That moment when…
…someone asks a question on a forum and gets 10 answers. Among them:
# one (1) dissertation with bulletpoints and linked sources, upvoted into stratosphere;
# three (3) “that guy up there mostly said everything, but I want also add...”;
# two (2) repeating what the three added, in other wording, because they didn’t bother to read the whole thread;
# one (1) “it was discussed some time ago, here’s the link”;
# two (2) disagreeing with some points of the dissertation;
# one (1) “lol idk [some wild guess, missing by a mile]”; often posted as first, but not always; downvoted so deep and fast that fishes with big eyes and glowing noses blink and look down, but it’s too late to make it out in the murk.
OP replies only the last one, sometimes before other comments were posted, but often not. “Wow, thank you so, so much! I wondered about it for so long time!” ...and disappears to never show up again.
It’s a very specific sub-sort of #someoneiswrongontheInternet and arguably much more infuriating than other sorts... -.-
Or, someone asks a question on a forum. You write a dissertation with linked sources and get no reply. Next day or day after next you see OP asking the same damn question again, sometimes on the same forum, sometimes not. He gets a half assed, not quite right answer. He thanks effusively and disappears to never show up again.
Like... dude, seriously? You amnesiac or what?
Or, a little more specific, someone asks a question on a language forum about a somewhat dated or niche but not so uncommon term or idiom, especially in literary use. Among all answers there inevitably is that one “Lol, I’m native but I’ve never heard that”. Bro, wtf...? Native my ass, unless you have only ever read shopping lists all your life... (In many cases OP also acknowledges this one only with “Oh, my mistake I guess, must be a wrong language, sorry” totally oblivious to other answers.)
You know, that moment when people come for help and then dodge people’s combined effort of delivering it. WTF :’)
…someone asks a question on a forum and gets 10 answers. Among them:
# one (1) dissertation with bulletpoints and linked sources, upvoted into stratosphere;
# three (3) “that guy up there mostly said everything, but I want also add...”;
# two (2) repeating what the three added, in other wording, because they didn’t bother to read the whole thread;
# one (1) “it was discussed some time ago, here’s the link”;
# two (2) disagreeing with some points of the dissertation;
# one (1) “lol idk [some wild guess, missing by a mile]”; often posted as first, but not always; downvoted so deep and fast that fishes with big eyes and glowing noses blink and look down, but it’s too late to make it out in the murk.
OP replies only the last one, sometimes before other comments were posted, but often not. “Wow, thank you so, so much! I wondered about it for so long time!” ...and disappears to never show up again.
It’s a very specific sub-sort of #someoneiswrongontheInternet and arguably much more infuriating than other sorts... -.-
Or, someone asks a question on a forum. You write a dissertation with linked sources and get no reply. Next day or day after next you see OP asking the same damn question again, sometimes on the same forum, sometimes not. He gets a half assed, not quite right answer. He thanks effusively and disappears to never show up again.
Like... dude, seriously? You amnesiac or what?
Or, a little more specific, someone asks a question on a language forum about a somewhat dated or niche but not so uncommon term or idiom, especially in literary use. Among all answers there inevitably is that one “Lol, I’m native but I’ve never heard that”. Bro, wtf...? Native my ass, unless you have only ever read shopping lists all your life... (In many cases OP also acknowledges this one only with “Oh, my mistake I guess, must be a wrong language, sorry” totally oblivious to other answers.)
You know, that moment when people come for help and then dodge people’s combined effort of delivering it. WTF :’)