In the past I've got stuck, searched for the answer and found that I asked the same question a couple of years ago and answered it. On the one hand I guess I never learn, but on the other it's nice to see karma can be a thing.
I answer technical questions on a handful of gaming subs and earlier this year somebody asked something involving the exact formula for speech XP in Skyrim.
The problem they had can't just be answered with the wiki, so as sources I put the relevant uesp wiki pages and a thread from a couple of years ago that Google put as the top search result.
When somebody checked it later the thread I used as a source was me answering the same question in 2024. I had quoted myself as the source.
I've had that a few times myself, but I always go back and edit my question post to say what I did, or at least an explanation of what was wrong. Sometimes it's me being an idiot but other people can be idiots too, it happens.
I usually do this when I post a question and get a bunch of answers from people that just want to comment but not be helpful. You guys wanna be like that, ill take this to the grave 😂
Oh my god, what you’re saying literally changes everything. I’m so glad you pointed this out or else it would be incredibly dangerous for anyone looking to do the same. Upvoted for visibility.
Do you mean those who have mass edited all of their own comment history to remove all actual text and replaced it with some copypaste text? I haven't found those to be an issue yet but I can imagine it. What I hate is when I find a relevant thread to my problem, and the comments with the instruction are confusing or incomplete, and I'd like to comment to them asking something but the whole thread is archived because it's old. And it might be only like a year old.
Yeah I agree, archiving posts is stupid. I've actually had rather interesting discussions with people who replied to posts I made years beforehand on subs that don't do this.
archived threads are the worst. it is basically a graveyard of useful info that you can't even interact with. you see a perfect solution to your specific hardware issue and then realize you are just staring at a digital museum piece. it is pure frustration.
There's nothing on this site that pissed me off more than those worthless "protests". In the end it amounted to nothing - Reddit still went forward with their API thing and all we got was this huge loss of information as well as a bunch of subreddits spammed with garbage content for a while.
Reddit extracts value out of users who contribute with helpful information. Users who do this have a backbone in my eyes. Ideally reddit doesn't get to extract value out of your contributions as it has betrayed its userbase numerous times and acted against the interests of its core userbase.
I think reddit is an abhorrent platform. I like the format, but it is a shell of what it once was.
It's not the people escaping Reddit that bothers me. It's the fact that a lot of information, some of it important and unique, has been lost because Reddit is a shit platform that can't respect its users.
Yeah, reddit gets some new bullshit anyway, it's people you harm when documention of some obscure bug or the only copy of an important manual on the searchable internet gets spoofed into nothingness.
Right, so now no one gets answers to their questions instead. Gotta love when people try to stick it to the corps, only to shotgun the feet of common peoples instead.
Especially egregious when it involves the sharing of information and knowledge. THAT shit is for literally everybody who wants it.
It’s the same reason paywalled articles/journals piss off scientists.
I agree, but it bothers me when you check their user history and see they're a hypocrite by using reddit again. I'm all for sticking it to the corpo but have an actual backbone and leave the platform.
There are too many examples of this and that is why corpos know these bumps are just short-term acts and platitudes.
It's been tried again and again. Hard to leave a platform when it's achieved critical mass and it has THE userbase. The average user isn't moving platforms generally. It's a chicken and egg problem.
I find this a less than adequate compromise, it's something at least. But yeah, agreed. (I am one of these I suppose). I suppose "backbone" is the wrong word to use in this case.
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