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“Never mind; I’ve resolved the issue. Closing the thread now.”

In our internal Q&A system I make it a point to describe what the resolution was, even when the mistake is something obvious or embarrassing that I did. I like to think my legacy will be leaving several dozen self-answered questions on common problems that other developers didn't feel the need to type up.

Parent is being sarcastic :) of course what you mention is the right thing to do but too often you see what parent posted. Infuriating.

https://xkcd.com/979/

One of my favorites is finding such a post, getting hopeful to find an answer, and then realizing it was me who wrote the post years and years ago.

I once was helping a coworker with a problem and asked about it on a related forum. Later that week he came over and told me how he found a forum where someone else who had the same problem, and their username looked a lot like my name…

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