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So, I started this post because I have this eternal annoyance with forum and blog commenters throughout the years.  By that, I don't mean here (I don't get any), but on other sites... useful sites.  I, like all of us, use the internet for research since, well, thats one of the reasons it was founded.  So, I look up a topic and apparently the first answer is always a retard.  Here is the most recent example that got me annoyed...

Blog Post:  How to build your own wifi for the xbox (rather than paying for the $80 MS device)
Commenter:  Throw out your xbox and buy a PS3, it has built in wifi
Me:  Umm... how is that cheaper than $80?

However, this isn't the only time.  Back in the day I used to do Desktop Support for large corporate enterprises.  Many times a client would have some issue on their pc and I was stuck fixing it.  I can't tell you how many times I tried to research a solution on an IE or MS Windows problem where I'd finally find the same issue and some retard without fail would find the post and respond: "Use firefox instead" or "Use Linux!"...  umm...  thanks, I'll let management know that.  I'm sure that brilliant solution will certainly get me a raise.  What if you had a problem with your car and the mechanic told you not to fix it but to just buy a new car?

Anyway, this was more of a rant than anything, but there has got to be solutions for these people.  I have seen some social networking resolutions for this such as 'rating' up and down comments, hoping that there are more intelligent folks participating then trolls, but is that true?  Maybe intelligent folks are just too busy to post?  Another option is for blog and forum moderators to just delete stupid posts, but that poses its own set of issues, such as...  who determines the value of a post?

Thoughts?

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