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Tried reading your comment but ran into a lack of usable information.

If you try a new thing and run into 1 (or maybe 2 errors), maybe it's worth the time to report them.

If you run into a few errors, it's into "this isn't ready" or "they didn't try hard enough" territory, and it's not worth reporting the problems.

It's also not worth posting "I tried didn't work" because nobody knows what you tried. There is zero information in it, and it's a waste of bits that just pollutes the discussion.

It seems like that, but it's not. When trying to figure out a problem, even that tiny bit of information is worthwhile. If nobody else has posted it, it's the first indication that it doesn't work.

If others have posted, it's an indication that it's a wider-spread problem than you knew.

I'd still rather have more information, and I look down on people who only post something that useless. But it does have information I've used to figure problems out.

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