979: Wisdom of the Ancients

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Wisdom of the Ancients

Title text: All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...'

Explanation

This comic is pretty self-explanatory, as to the left of the frame is the feeling Cueball gets when he sees a thread on an online forum with the same error and no solution. Those type of hanging posts with no conclusion are majorly annoying, which is why you see Cueball standing up and shaking his monitor in the right frame.

In many forums it is considered polite to post the exact fix that you came across, so this exact event can be avoided.

In a few comics Cueball will get the help he wants.

Transcript

(A poem is written outside the only panel, right justified along the left edge of the only panel.)

Never have I felt so close to another soul

And yet so helplessly alone

As when I Google an error

And there's one result

A thread by someone with the same problem

And no answer

Last posted to in 2003

[A person stands in front of his computer, shaking it violently while looking at the screen.]

Person: Who were you, DenverCoder9? WHAT DID YOU SEE?!

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Discussion

"There was uh, a thing called a segfault that made my computer like, all blurry and stuff." Davidy²²[talk] 06:58, 2 February 2013 (UTC)