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I have only posted on a forum seeking advice on two occasions. The first was an utter disaster. The 50+ responses quickly devolved into a discussion about chocolate and Darth Vader. Many were non-responses: people literally saying they didn't know anything about it but felt a need to yammer regardless.

The second time happened after days of mayhem trying to write a program, i.e last week. I had written it in one language but had to translate it into another. A specialty website spit out a completed translation in seconds. It would need tweaking but what a time saver.

That's when problems started. In a nutshell, I would add code line-by-line and put in break points to check progress. When new lines produced an error they'd be removed. Then it wouldn't work at all. What?!

After much cursing, I could sometimes overcome it by closing browser, clearing the cache, saving the programs with new names, and re-opening it all. When it didn't work, I would erase huge sections of code and start building it one line at a time until it bombed again and I'd have to repeat everything. There was no logic.

Frustrated to baldness, I queried a programming forum. The first person said to clear the cache to force a fresh reload. More people chimed in; none actually "read" my concerns but wanted code examples anyway. I reiterated that it wasn't the code, yet they insisted. I acquiesced and proved them wrong - code wasn't the issue.

After more trolls spewed their misguided advice and patronizing attitudes - still requesting code - I posted additional details with an acknowledgment that my question seemed preposterous and illogical...I'd think someone was punking me!

On this forum, questions and responses/solutions are rated by members and mine was in the negatives immediately. The resident "geniuses" thought the cache guy had a stupid reply and ridiculed it into oblivion, so down-voted that it was deleted within the hour. Ironically, only his reply truly addressed my problem or had any merit.

The frenzy was building and they were hell-bent on discrediting my question and projecting their inferior superiority instead of listening. Consequently, my question and thread were erased before the day ended.

These forums are an accurate microcosm of life. How many of these idiot programmers patted themselves on the back for averting a coding disaster while arrogantly ganging up on the one "dissenter" who was correct? Charter members of the Dunning-Kruger club like these www.stackoverflow.com fuckwit fools should shut their pieholes.

In the end it was mostly the server cache not clearing properly. Still not working after three phone calls, it's bad enough to consider switching website hosting providers. Commented out sections mucked it up, too (never would've figured that, the browsers are supposed to ignore them).

All for naught - I had to rewrite it in yet another language. And the same problems started all over again!

Posted by M: July 3, 2025

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