rant, programmers
I really cannot stand people who ask for programming help in a public channel, are asked to provide a pastebin of the exact output unmodified, and then will spend endless time arguing that their lossy transcription of the output "should be good enough" or do basically anything other than "making the damn pastebin"
(This also applies to being needlessly difficult about other instructions, and it's usually the same people)
Like, people are asking you to do this *for a reason*, you are asking for free help from volunteers, and the least you could fucking do is not make their job harder by nitpicking every suggestion or instruction for the sake of it
re: rant, programmers
Also, to clarify: of course it's fine to bring up any *legitimate* concerns you have about the instructions or suggestions you're given. This is definitely not about that.
This is about the "I know what I'm doing, and it's your fault if my transcription isn't enough" crowd. The ones where the ego leaks through from the first message.
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Side rant: if you were unable to figure out from the output what the source of the problem is by yourself, what makes you think you are so confidently qualified to determine what part of the output is "relevant"?