Nevermind, have figured it out.

Me, who completely nuked twelve years worth of Reddit posts and comments which were often one of, if not the only relevant search result to an extremely niche problem.

"Why are you trying to do [x]? Have you tried doing [y] instead?"

goes to goople
searches '1980 cx500 only runs on one cylinder'
comment from 2007: "replace this module right here:"
[broken Photobucket link]

edit: might as well add the problem. lol

if the carbs are clean and tuned well enough to be ruled out the problem is likely the CDI module as they are over 40 years old and are known to fail. if replacing the CDI doesn't seem to make a difference the problem is likely the ignition system on the whole. the next step in the process would be the stator but since you have to pull the motor to change it you may as well go ahead and rebuild the ignition system with modern components. there are a couple different aftermarket solutions such as Ignitech. i opted for Rae-San.

People who write a whole novel about "google is your friend" and try to make you feel stupid for asking a question are the ultimate assholes. You wrote 3 paragraphs just to bully a stranger on the internet when 1 sentence could have answered the question. Thanks for being a royal knob head.

Here is a comprehensive Guide how to do [x]:

{20 paragraphs of Background Story}

[x] is Impossible to do, you dumbfuck

And this is why I have always hated every single jackass that responded to a question with "just Google it" even when Google didn't completely suck cock.

If I had just one single answer from a reputable source doing that, I wouldn't be asking real people. Search engines were never infallible. Niche topics have always garnered shit results.

Or someone asked a question on Reddit and got an answer, but then it was removed due to a protest. All you get is the reply “Thank you so much! It works now”

Wrong!

Google: How to do xyz

7 million AI generated SEO optimised bullshit websites: Here's you do xyz (we don't know either but we use lots of words Google likes so we get put first)

Me lately trying to figure out how to do anything on Linux

This was always dickhead behaviour, but not for the reasons you guys are circlejerking about. Often the answers to these questions are extremely easy to find online (even today, Google is nowhere near as useless as people make it out to be). But the entire point of asking other people through social media or a forum is because you want to engage in discussion with other humans. That's literally the entire point of these websites: to foster discussion, both for the sake of learning and for the social entertainment we all need. People who sign up to them and then completely shutdown attempts to start discussions are absolutely braindead and don't understand any of this. Modern forms of social media only encourage this kind of performative social interaction. So many people seem to think the sole purpose of discussion-based social media is to dunk on others with a vicious reply and "win" by earning more points (ratio) instead of having an actual back and forth discussion with another human.

Literally happens all the damn time anymore

Whole first page is ads and threads of people saying, 'Just Google it,' 'There's a search function here for a reason,' 'thread locked due to frequently asked question,' etc, etc.

I miss the earlier days of the Internet where people were more helpful. Or hell when Google wasn't just ads and SEO crap.

I FOUND A STACK OVERFLOW QUESTIONS RECENTLY THAT WAS LITERALLY THIS!

Nr. 1 accepted answer (lots of years ago): something something plenty of information available on Google, no need for this thread

Nr. 2 answer (way fewer years ago): seeing as this is now the first Google result for anything relating to this, here's how you do it.

(shame I can't remember what exactly the question was. Please still believe me? 🥺)

It was even wrose when there was a site by the name "let me google it for you", which insulted you while made an animation about how to use this "not evil" website google. You google "how to do [X]" find a nice looking forum, and people either are angry that OP didn't google it, or they deceptively linked to a lmgify page.

After a month of suffering, I instead reinstalled Windows XP, which I had a lot of trouble with (fugly UI, stability issues, performance issues, etc), but not as much as with the "king of stability", Linux.

And when you finally find some helpful forum with content from 15 years ago, you’ll have someone be like “GUYS I FIGURED IT OUT! Here’s a [broken] link to someone else who solved it” with a dozen or so “Thanks, that solved the issue immediately for me!” Comments after it.

All those letMeGoogleThat links from the 00s have turned into Rick Rolls (figuratively speaking).

See also: The less hostile but equally useless advice to "Search online"

More than once I’ve had Google return a years old reddit thread with only 2 or 3 comments that just say “I don’t know, let me know if you find out.” What in the shit is going on that THAT is somehow the SEO winner?

God, I feel this in my bones. I always hated the scumbags who acted this way so much. I'm really glad I'm not the only one...

Anybody remember this site? Google used to be so good that anybody with half a brain could find a good result if they would just type a basic phrase into it.

https://googlethatforyou.com?q=Why%20does%20Google%20suck

I tried to get into making Skyrim mods, but some basic info just isn't on any forums. I then find it discussed on discord servers as if it's common knowledge discovered a while ago, but those same servers also perpetuate myths from Morrowind that were debunked a decade ago by an experienced modder. However, that modder is also a toxic asshole who's now impossible to work with, so finding reliable info from him after 2018 is hard. All the while I'm just sitting here wondering if it's even worth the effort.

it's crazy how those comments are aging like milk precisely because google/web search is going to shit (in addition to being dickhead comments ofc)

just weird to look back and think about how we thought it would never change

Me scrolling through 150 stackoverflow pages and 'helpful' third party websites that don't answer my question

"Have you tried rtfm?"

Not sure about [x], but here’s how you do [y]