Every programmer's worst nightmare is when Stack Overflow says "You are the first one to ask this question".

Kind of like when the doctor tells you that the diagnosis is pretty bad but at least you'll get to name the disease

Or when you get a response to your question, or find a response to a problem that is exactly what you are facing, and it opens with "That's an interesting question, -".

I don't want to ask interesting questions! I want all my questions to be stupid and duplicates with obvious oneliner fixes.

I asked a xamarin question once, 4 years ago. It's still being commented on. Fooking bloody hell mate. I swear on me mum.

Finding via Google or DDG exactly the same question I want to ask and/or containing exactly the error message I got.

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Dupes everywhere, no replies.

Or even

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OP comes back some time later, just says "solved it, thanks" or "sorted it out" or similar. No further thread content.

It's my fave.

@corscheid that hurts the most. Just fucking comment how you solved and what was the problem exactly. You can answer your own questions damn it!