Saved you the ten bucks you spent on the domain registration.
Maybe I should create a passive-aggressive webpage about sites that don't check their formatting on different screen sizes? ;)
This toxic positivity trend disguising itself as genuine kindness is leading to the HR-ification of everyday life.
My biggest complaint about this site is “no duh” lol I can’t imagine there’s a single person out there who has ever linked lmgtfy that genuinely thought they were being helpful.
Do unhelpful responses sometimes get leveraged against people genuinely just asking for help? Sure. But people also ask questions in bad faith, and it's a perfectly valid choice to respond in kind.
I've never sent an lmgtfy link to someone asking a technical question, but the "can you actually cite one vaccine that is proven to have saved lives" people get one.
Otherwise, the best course of action is the simplest: ignore/downvote/report and move on. You’re better off spending your energy and wit actually helping people who are there in good faith.
We don't all have to give a response optimized to be "best".
excuse the passive aggressive form of this comment
What? No. The intent is to lightly mock the user and point out that they are asking a leading/epiplexis question. Maybe the other person thinks higher of you than they should and maybe you really didn't understand the point they're making, but from my perspective that is what is usually happening.
The point of these is that it is a widespread annoyance. No, it's not nice to send someone a link to nohello.net, but it is letting them know that you are annoyed.
If every time someone Slacks you "Hello", you send this link, you're probably an asshole. If you send this to your boss, or to senior people in your org, you are a moron.
But everyone knows the serial "hello"-ers, and if you tell them nicely "Please just ask your question", they will just say "Yes of course", and then do the exact same thing next time. By sending the link, you are telling them, YOU ARE ANNOYING ME, without having to be so direct as saying something like, "If you Slack "hello" to me while I'm working outside of my hours on a customer deliverable one more time I will lose it with you".
It _is_ a shaming. It _is_ a talking down to. It is saying "get a clue".
But I have slack conversations that are just "Hello" - "Hello" (weeks pass) "Hello" - "Hi" (days pass) "Hello" - "Hi".
They do not have a specific question for you. They are looking for someone to dump their work on, and they pick whoever lets them know they are available, by replying
Hate to break it to you, but shaming and ridiculing is always the intent when I use those types of links.
lmfgtfy.com is an active joke/taunt usually used by the knowledgeable person against a lazy person. There is no attempted deniability or hiding the joke.
E.g. better-auth uses dosu, if you see their GitHub discussions
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