diff --git a/src/docs/flavortext/please_please_please.diviner b/src/docs/flavortext/please_please_please.diviner new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eecbc62d10 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/docs/flavortext/please_please_please.diviner @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +@title Please Please Please +@group flavortext + +When you send a message that says "I got an error when I tried to do something": + += Please Please Please = + +Please copy and paste the text of the error. + +Please please please. It is very helpful. So please please please please please +please do this. + +I want to help. I really do. But it is very difficult when you don't include the +error text and only allude to how traumatizing reading that text was for you. It +is basically inviting me to troll you. + +I am only human. I have only so much restraint. + +So please include the error message in your message, before you send it. + +Or even after you send it, if you realize you forgot. That would be okay too. I +would understand. + +Just please do this. + +Please. + += Thank You = + +Thank you for reading this note. + += Appendix: A Collection of Messages Wherein The Text of the Error is Not Present = + +Please + + COUNTEREXAMPLE + Subject: help + X-Priority: 1 + it dun work + +please + + COUNTEREXAMPLE + Subject: Error + I got an error when I ran it. Why? + +please + + COUNTEREXAMPLE + Subject: error when running program + I ran the program and it gave me an error. + + What do I do now? + +please + + COUNTEREXAMPLE + Subject: so many errors + I got an error and it had instructions in it. I tried to follow the + instructions but I got a different error. Are you sure this works? + +please + + COUNTEREXAMPLE + Subject: confusing error + i got an error but it was confusing + + can you explain what it means? + +please + + COUNTEREXAMPLE + Subject: Irony + There is a spelling error in the error message I received. + +please include the text of the error message.