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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I send the request and list the troubleshooting steps I have tried. Mostly so that they know it's not frivolous but also to avoid duplicate work.

But so often those stupid steps work. Turn it off and back on. Uninstall and reinstall.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you want them to really like you you've got to list the steps you've already attempted and screenshot any error messages you get.

Don't just say you got an error message, actually tell us what it was.

The number of times I get to tickets which claim up and down that there is some major fault, only for the error message to turn out to be that they didn't enter the correct password cannot be counted.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

This. I don't care if the error message is completely useless, I just want to know what you are actually getting.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes sir, I do that. I'm on both sides of these requests as I admin some of the financial software, sometimes can fix things before having to involve IT.

And to purplemonkeymad's point, OMG I don't know who writes Microsoft's error messages but they are nonsense.

"The program has stopped working."

Thanks.