Ah! :)

I've seen something a bit like that: moderators who would come down hard on people who ask a question, both in an old thread or a new one (because the first time they were told not to create new threads or not to necropost so they tried again, following the advice, in the opposite manner), by telling them "why can't you search the fucking forum 2 minutes before digging an old thread / creating a new thread, stupid; this has been answered multiple times: here, here and here; topic locked", and of course none of the links he gives does answer the specific problem the posters had and clearly specified, because the mod didn't spend the said 2 minutes reading the posters' questions and just stupidly copied the first search results in the rush he had to punish the intruders. So, when you hit the same problems as the posters, you are out of luck, because their questions were not answered before, and they will never be.

I have seen this unfortunate behaviour in mailing lists for some Open Source software as well. Gatekeepers with anger issues and too much time on their hand (but not enough to actually answer the question). Sometimes I wish these people realised how hostile they are and unwelcoming to new users and potential contributors, but maybe that’s the point.

The result is ~10 relevant hits when you Google an error message with not a single useful solution.

Getting redirected to post on a locked thread where that's not allowed... I propose to call this the Catch-302.