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Clippy earned it's hate the old fashioned way... by being bad. It would quite cheerfully interrupt what you're working on, and actively prevent you from continuing to work on whatever it is while the "Assistant" was active. It would then provide "help" which was not in any way, shape, or form helpful. Such as I remember at one point I started a text document with the following:
(name of story)
By
(my pen name)​
It was a dark and stormy
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At which point Clippy decided I clearly was working on a budget, and offered help. It took five minutes to close down Clippy's "help" interface, and another 10 minutes to figure out how to undo the so-called help so I could get back to writing the short story that I was writing for a class project.
 
Rajvik_wolfboy said:
strange thing, but i never had issues with Clippy, and i've used MS Office since its inception
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In my experience, Clippy was fairly annoying, but also fairly easy to permanently silence. So he would pop up, you would say "please never do this to me again." And your relationship would end.
EXCEPT if you were the computer literate one in the family then you would have to do it AGAIN every time a member of the family ran into Clippy and couldn't figure out how to disable him.
AND THEN EXCEPT AGAIN every time you used a public computer with a guest account it would be on by default so you would see him again at the library and at school and at your workplace...
AND THEN ALSO not every workplace upgrades their office suite on the regular and office 97 had some really confusing staying power so sometimes like 10 years would go by with no Clippy sightings and you'd have all but forgotten him except for the memes and them you open a word document and OH MY GOD IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING...?

So he was like a weird ex that you went on one unsatisfying date with who just keeps showing up everywhere you go for like 20 years.

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On the topic of the story: when will Taylor learn that Vespa can ALSO bug merge?
 
One of the problems I had was that WIndows Update would keep reinstalling Clippy. And my experience was that checking the "never help again" box in the Clippy UI only applied for a given session. Or maybe a given document. It's been a while.
 
ScreamyBirb said:
Clippy is a lot less annoying when it's advice is "imagine the recipient is on fire and covered in bees", just saying.
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I don't think that was one of the suggestions made... Also, poor bees! They might get burnt!

mn-- said:
Also some folks just naturally skipped the versions of MS Office that had it on by default, which was only Office 97 and Office 2000. Going from Office 95 (no Clippy) to Office XP (Clippy off by default) wasn't all that rare, and even larger jumps could occasionally be found.
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I'm computer savvy enough Clippy was very firmly killed on my machine, and any machine I was forced to regularly use. Clippy did persuade me to move to OpenOffice, even before it was fully reliable, ditto using early Red Hat Linux, instead of Windows NT, on (2nd hand, ex-business) secondary machines.

Maybe Taylor could use bugs to de-bug people's machines, remove Clippy? She could install a helpful Vespa tool, instead!

"Would you like your problem stung to death? Please ensure an epi-pen is to hand in case of accidents!"

No?

(Hmm. Could Taylor devise an epi-pen that might help with Vespa venom? Or, is that a task beyond her?)
 
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