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      Because whenever those kind of users report an issue, their reports are borderline useless.

      User: “I can’t make a comment”

      Dev: “What did the error message say?”

      User: “I dunno”

      Bonus if the user starts writing a 100-word paragraph which can be succinctly summarized as “I dunno, just fix it!”

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        I used to work with internet service for trains. I remember one support ticket filed by the train conductor:

        “Internet doesn’t work”

        No info regarding area
        No info regarding when
        No info regarding which carriage
        …or even which train.

        Well, I managed to jump through a few hoops, figuring out the schedule for this particular individual, and could deduce which train at least. Nagios reported everything as fine, but sometimes Nagios can lie, so I tracked it down and did the usual diagnostics onboard. Couldn’t find anything wrong.

        I phoned up the guy and it turned out he’d forgotten to enable wifi on his phone.