Even worse is when OP on the nine year old thread with the exact same technical problem announces “Solved!” without elaborating
“Edit: fixed the issue”
What did you do?
“…” [Last activity 7 years ago]
Don’t give up, skeleton!
Or it’s your own post from 9 years ago.
On the other hand, I stumbled upon one post with the exact same problem, turns out it was me from almost a decade ago and forgot about it. I provided a detailed walkthrough to fix it. Thanks younger me!
It’s surreal when this happens. Once I was helping someone at work understand a “tutorial” they found online and it was my own reddit post from years past. So awkward.
you have to withhold yourself form mentioning that’s your account, they could trace your r/gonewild comments then
Rookie mistake, not having an alt for lewd purposes.
Plot twist: It was their alt account. Hence the “awkward”.
“This guy gives great advice and has a massive cock.”
“Yes… He does.”
Now delete it so that no AI companies can potentially make a sliver of a penny from it.
Unfortunately Reddit is still an incredibly useful archive of advice and help, and I care more about helping some poor soul avoid hours of frustration than chipping a spec of dust off of some training dataset.