Seeking help online can be stressful.

in ask •  last year 

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When searching on-line for answers to technical problems, I often encounter people with the same problems, and responses that I feel should cause the responders to be widely banned from participation.

One truly awful response is “have u tried googling?” but others abound.

Right now, I've a problem with extracting video and subtitles from a DVD. The DVD provides the option of subtitles in three languages. When told to overlay subtitles onto the video, VLC overlays all subtitles for all three languages, even when told just to use track 1 (English).

Someone had exactly the same problem. Further, he or she edited the query to mentioned specifically selecting just one track. And the sole response is from some idiot took that edit to be the solution, and tut-tutted about editing the query to include the answer, which it is not.

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