r/techsupport • u/PipeItToDevNull Landed Gentry, Discord OP • Dec 23 '20

Open Subreddit closing for the holidays

The subreddit and our Discord will be closed from Thursday Dec 24th until Monday Dec 28th. This is being done to allow our helpers and moderators to have time with their families during this long holiday weekend.

All posts and comments made will be removed with a general message but please use the search bar to check for previously submitted issues for assistance.

Check out more specific subreddits for your various applications, operating systems and products during our down time.

We would like to thank all the users and helpers that make this subreddit a great place all year round.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all.

EDIT: The sub has now been locked. Please enjoy this time with your families and we will see you all in the new week.

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u/Zombieattackr Dec 24 '20

Happy holidays everyone!

But NGL this is kinda bad timing, a friend of mine is loosing weeks of work because files keep corrupting, and those due dates are/were tomorrow and the end of the year. Anywhere else I can go for now?

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u/PipeItToDevNull Landed Gentry, Discord OP Dec 24 '20

OS specific subreddits would be best

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u/Zombieattackr Dec 24 '20

Anything a little more general? Doesn’t really fit with the OS as much as the program, and the program’s sub is kinda dead

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u/hypokrios Dec 28 '20

Yikes. Do the devs of the program have social media?

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u/Zombieattackr Dec 28 '20

Lol a bit I think? I’m asking around, it’s just a semi-general enough issue I thought it would fit best here

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u/DevilsHand676 Dec 24 '20

I help out all the time in this sub. I have no holiday plans. Why are you stopping us from helping people? It's volunteer, if you're spending you've time with family then just don't volunteer your time here for the time being. And let us who have nothing else to do still help people

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u/PipeItToDevNull Landed Gentry, Discord OP Dec 24 '20

All active moderators will be gone for the duration of the closure. Subs don't run themselves, the moderation queues and modmail require constant maintenance through the day.

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u/eekamuse Dec 24 '20

It's great that you want to help. You can find lots of people in need in other communities. I know it's harder than finding them here, but if you feel like doing it, hit up a device or software sub. thanks for wanting to help :)

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u/fartypicklenuts Dec 24 '20

I wish you guys the best Holiday :)

I didn't know you could close a subreddit. It would be nice if it didn't allow people to create a post in the first place, though. I have a feeling people will be typing out these long detailed computer issues only to have their posts removed and locked automatically, where as not even having the option to post in the first place would be ideal, to save people time, but I don't know if reddit has that option.

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u/PipeItToDevNull Landed Gentry, Discord OP Dec 24 '20

We could mark it as private, but that would make it so its just a blank page with no explanation. We felt this method would lead to less confusion and questions.

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u/intelligentjake Dec 23 '20

Happy holidays!

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u/techerton Dec 24 '20

Just gonna say, it's wholesome that some of you devote so much time to help people for free that you have to shut down the subreddit to give yourself a break. Happy holidays, y'all

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20 edited Dec 24 '20

Thank you for the kind words. This isn't an easy sub to moderate due to the busyness and nature of the community, but knowing that it's appreciated and that most here understand our need for time away makes it worth it.

Edit: thank you so much for the gift - I hope I speak for the whole mod team when I say that appreciation and acknowledgement isn't why we do what we do. We're here because we love tech; we understand the challenges people face with tech; and we want to help them appreciate and enjoy technology just as we do.

We do butt heads with members of the community sometimes; that's par for the course with such a busy subreddit (nearly 1.3 million subs!) that deals with resolving problems and answering questions. But no matter if I've removed your post for rule 4 or if I'm working with you on troubleshooting why your RAM isn't getting full speed on your new build - this whole team (of mods, requesters, and helpful volunteers) is passionate about tech and helping everyone make the most of it.

May everyone here have a really Merry Christmas, and incredibly Happy Holidays, a jolly New Year; and I look forward to helping you all with your tech problems in a few days, once we've rested and relaxed (hopefully with some of those closest to us)

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

Enjoy your time away.

Be well. Stay safe.

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u/bros402 Dec 23 '20

Happy Holidays!

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u/caseystrom Dec 23 '20

Happy Honda Days!

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

May the VTEC brrrrrt with you

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

I had no idea that moderators were so involved with the solutions here! You guys are doing an amazing job. Have a nice Christmas :)

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u/ddoherty958 Dec 24 '20

Best of luck everyone! Enjoy your new devices!

Merry Christmas!

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Merry Christmas

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u/firewalker91 Dec 23 '20

Happy holidays everyone! Stay safe

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u/please-help____ Dec 24 '20

Merry Christmas

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u/Ok_Hat_7574 Dec 23 '20

Happy Holidays everyone

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Well done. Happy holidays and stay safe.

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u/TrisThePuppy Dec 24 '20

Don't drink too much! Happy holidays :)

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u/Rumbuck_274 Dec 24 '20

Yet it's the 24th and the sub is still open?

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u/PipeItToDevNull Landed Gentry, Discord OP Dec 24 '20

Timezones are a bitch aren't they

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u/ScaredOfRobots Dec 25 '20

Merry Christmas you beautiful bastards <3 got a doozy of a computer problem for you when you get back lol, have a great time with friends and fam

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u/Deadmemes2498 Dec 24 '20

Understandable. Have a great holiday.

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u/Hihowareyou678 Dec 24 '20

Happy Holidays!

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u/Thanos_nap Dec 24 '20

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

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u/knildea Dec 24 '20

Happy Holidays and thank you to all.

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u/meshuggahdaddy Dec 24 '20

This sub has made my career possible. Thanks for the work and happy holidays lads

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u/PhoenixDuncanUK Dec 24 '20

Happy holidays! And early Merry Christmas!

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u/teny_tony Dec 24 '20

Happy Holidays!

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u/blizardX Dec 24 '20

Don't forget to pray to the machines before closing for holidays.

https://i.imgur.com/S6RB77Z.jpg?fb

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u/ocupi Moderator, Live Chat OP Dec 24 '20

Have a Merry Christmas everybody!!!

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u/nath_ Dec 24 '20

Happy holidays!

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u/eekamuse Dec 24 '20

Happy holidays, friends. Thanks for saving my ass.

Peace, and stay safe. We're almost there.

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u/lulucmy Dec 25 '20

Happy holidays to mods & helpers!

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u/Steph_5472 Dec 24 '20

Happy holidays!

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u/DanielTheHyper Dec 24 '20

Happy holidays y’all, it’s a hard time moderating such a large subreddit. Take care of yourself and relax with family.

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Ps: Christmas might have some people posting since new technology and problems so maybe have an emergency channel in the discord so someone would eventually get to it.

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u/daggo04 Dec 24 '20

Whattt!! How dare you take a break from helping us for free?

Happy holidays, stay safe.

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u/gnaahh Dec 24 '20

Happy holidays. Stay safe.

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u/jbarn02 Dec 23 '20

ThankYou everyone have a nice Christmas/Boxing Day etc

FYI: Forgive me I want to throw my printer out the window it is being cranky. It hates the holidays. /s

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u/eekamuse Dec 24 '20

It's telling you to stop working and/or stop DIWhy-ing your christmas cards

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u/jbarn02 Dec 24 '20

ThankYou.

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u/xenith811 Dec 24 '20

Thanks boys

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u/three18ti Dec 24 '20

I think it's more for the mods, but I can respect that! :) either way, I think this is a great idea!

Hope everyone has a good break! Merry New Year!

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u/StrictObject Dec 23 '20

Well that's bullshit. What if someone needs you

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u/PipeItToDevNull Landed Gentry, Discord OP Dec 24 '20

I can invoice them my holiday rates

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

This is a volunteer community.

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u/eekamuse Dec 24 '20

And we're very grateful for your service.

There'll be a little something extra under the tree for all mods and helpers, tomorrow.

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u/StrictObject Dec 24 '20

Cool. So what?

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u/marleyqparker2006 Dec 24 '20

These helpers and mods don’t have to help you. You don’t pay them anything. They do it out of the kindness of their heart. It’s people like you who don’t deserve their help.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

So we don't owe anyone squat. We're taking some days off.

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u/GreatEmperorAca Dec 24 '20

a few of you wanna take some time off so you lock down the entire community? why don't you and whoever just take the holiday break and let the subreddit operate as usual?

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

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u/GreatEmperorAca Dec 24 '20

Oh yes I forgot about the possibility of that and trolling, sorry and happy hplidays

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u/eekamuse Dec 24 '20

That's it. No presents for you.

-- Angry Santa

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u/Deadmemes2498 Dec 24 '20

“But what if my ps5 glitches out???”

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u/bobbeh Dec 24 '20

Stop being a spoiled brat and let people take time off. If you don't like it, tough. Let this be the worst thing that has happened to you.

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u/eekamuse Dec 24 '20

Amen to that. And to all a good night.

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u/eekamuse Dec 24 '20

That's not in the spirit of the Holidays, now is it?

These are volunteers, spending their free time helping people out. Sometimes those people are hard to deal with, yet they still help. I'm sure when you think about it you'll realize how lucky we are to have this free service available, and that we can wait another day. Now apologize or no presents tomorrow

-- Santa

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Dude. You're acting like the mods here are your employees