13 Unhelpful People Providing Awful Advice
Advice is lovely to receive when it's constructive and actually helps you feel better. Sometimes, it doesn't help much at all, but you can tell someone put some thought into it and it means something because of that alone. Other times, people think they have the best advice for everything, which they will readily share with you, uninvited. These latter people usually do not have the slightest idea what they're talking about, and somehow they seem so convinced that they're right anyway. It's both funny and sad simultaneously.
For whatever reason, the following people either love hearing the sound of their own voice or the sight of their own writing too much, because the advice they're offering is downright terrible, meaningless, or even harmful. And while none of these suggestions should actually be considered as actual solutions (please, don't even try listening to them), at least we have the subreddit /r/ThanksImCured to point out how unrealistic they are. Here are 15 of our favorites.
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Uboa
> Person makes post in Support board asking for help
> First reply: "My X is working fine"
Dai-Khai-Sehn
There's ALWAYS a reply like that. In every damn support forum.
El Lugubre
"Have you tried turning it off and on?"
"Did you check if it is plugged?"
"Did you check if it is missing?"
"Did you run the automatized troubleshooter that prompts you when you have this problem?"
Or basically any "Did you check the first three things you always check?"
I swear you have to preface your pleas for help with "Give me the 4th advice that comes to mind first, please"
Deez Rodenutz
When I was in school for computer work and was asked how to fix an issue, we always jokingly cut the fat and said "Format, Reinstall", AKA ignore all the simple solutions that you mentioned and just wipe everything from the computer and reinstall to default without any of their stuff on it.
In reality, all the things you said are legitimately good questions that a lot of folks do not bother with thinking about before seeking help. There are a lot more "no common sense" and computer illiterate folks out there than should be possible in this day and age.
Good to get the basics out of the way before getting worked up on more advanced solutions. As they say, "Think Horses, not Zebras/Unicorns".
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