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by waitforit 1084 days ago
"The problem solver": asks how to solve a specific error while also posting the stacktrace/error which already contains a message about how to solve the error
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“Readme, Readme-not”: opens an issue asking how to do something explicitly covered in the readme/getting started.
I love this one. We’ve all missed something plain as day at some point. I pride myself on RTFM before I start working with something, but I’ve earned this medal a few times.

Can we also start handing out achievements to repos and/or orgs?

I have a few where “Clear As Molasses” is a good one for the README: “Documents something useful in an entirely opaque manner.” (Edit: Maybe requiring you read the code to understand what the README failed to articulate about something basic?)

Edit: typo