Have a personal web site

Re:Have a personal web site by sl1ck731 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:21AM (#19788149)

I tried doing what the OP described, become some interesting blogger person, but threw in a 2 or 3 line article about some mundane error I had with a tool one day mixed in with all the other wordfluff.

Surprisingly the error code drew a ton of traffic compared to anything interesting I could have possibly thought about writing.

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Re:Have a personal web site by kaycebasques on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:45AM (#19788966)

You stumbled upon a technical writing best practice. Always include the exact error code and message in documentation because people often search for that exact string.

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Re:Have a personal web site by bookofjoe on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:49PM (#19802902)

Analogous: supply a link rather than tell someone to look it up.

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Re:Have a personal web site by DrScump on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @02:25AM (#19794995)

and/or the exact text of the message. A vague search is fine if there are few matches,but there's a lot of cruft out there.

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