[Normille]

As well as the annoyances you point out, there are also the people who haven't a clue but decide to weigh in with their half-baked opinion anyway.

This seems especially prevalent on the Apple forums. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen some poor sod advised by some 'know nothing know-all' that the answer to his/her problem is to "reinstall MacOS" when their issue could easily be solved in seconds by deleting a corrupt preference file, or fixing an incorrect permission.

[solarkraft]

On Microsoft's forums these stupid suggestions are the official answers ("trouble shooting"). Have literally any issue? Why don't you reboot, reinstall, switch your hardware piece by piece and bake me a cake?

No diagnosis. Just 3 weeks of work for the reporter before they'll even look at the problem.

"Hey, I'm an MVP. Fuck you. Hope this helped."

[musicale]

Know-nothing know-it-alls are the scourge of these "support" forums.

At some point Apple/Microsoft/etc. seem to have decided "let's incentivize know-nothing know-it-alls to copy-paste useless non-solutions to every problem in the hope that our users will just give up and go away."

[speedyapoc]

The Apple forums are consistently aggravating. With every question, cue the level X “community specialist” telling you to reset your SMC.

[kaelwd]

Same deal with Microsoft and sfc /scannow