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How to ask questions on Stack Overflow
- wyldfire 11y agoWould that we could bend SO to match the need rather than the other way 'round. The audience that needs to read this probably doesn't spend enough time reading the SO help/advice on asking questions. I try to draw out these details when trying to answer questions on SO. Sometimes askers just can't seem to express those details clearly. But most of the time given enough dialogue we can get to the crux of the issue.
- wkoszek 11y agoTrue. I guess from the stats results or this article I'll be able to draw some conclusions on whether people actually try to learn how to ask questions in a smart way.
- rrauenza 11y agoThis has been around a while and is really good advice in general regarding asking questions: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
- wkoszek 11y agoI like it. Thanks for pointing this out.