Showerthought: I just hit 100 'no' replies on a single forum thread

I was trying to get a clear answer on a specific coding error for a project. I kept asking follow-up questions in one thread, and after three days, I got exactly 100 replies that were just variations of 'no' or 'not that'. It mattered because it showed me how often people guess instead of admitting they don't know. I finally got the right fix from a guy in Austin who linked to an old GitHub issue. Has anyone else had a thread spiral like that over a simple problem?

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karen_perry3818h ago

Wow, that's a brutal way to find the right answer.

the_margaret14h agoTop Commenter

That method took them 47 tries. Brutal is the perfect word for it.