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The responses in that thread give me a headache, has the daily wtf forum always been such a wasteland? One of the replies is "someone posted your software to the daily wtf so there MUST be a problem with your software, you should just accept it and here's how you should respond". Maddening

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Yes.

And they even scold the author of the software for responding in an emotional tone, while the whole "wtf" rant was full of personal attacks (and misunderstanding C programming, not bothering with facts etc).

And thusly, a website originally created for people to point to actual coding WTFs by incompetent programmers is running posts by incompetent users, voted by other incompetent users.

Seriously? The EFL author flatly denied to have "bitch" in the error message, posting even the grep results, while silently changing the error message from "bitch" to "complain" hoping that no one would notice it. Obviously git history doesn't lie like him. And he was the one that wrote that error message. In the meantime he started attacking the author of the post on that forum with meaningless arguments. And you have the courage to say that the incompetence is in the forum users rather than in such person that is so full of sh*t to just outrightly lie in front of everyone?

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