I found this the most useful thing about StackOverflow - it taught me how to both ask and answer questions more effectively. Bad: > "I have an error. What do

I found this the most useful thing about StackOverflow - it taught me how to both ask and answer questions more effectively. Bad: > "I have an error. What do I do?" Better: > "I have this error: {BLAH}. What do I do?" Best: > "I'm trying to do X. I have this error: {BLAH}. I read the documentation and tried doing Y, but it didn't fix it. How I can I do X?" Similarly, I try to avoid giving answers that are just "change this line to x". You're just a code-fixing machine into which you pump questions and answers are spat out. Nobody learns anything that way, and you're going to answer the same question over and over again, and get annoyed.