> my feeling is that you're talking about questions that do seem clear to you and I'm talking about questions that don't seem clear to me. Totally. > Are you

> my feeling is that you're talking about questions that do seem clear to you and I'm talking about questions that don't seem clear to me. Totally. > Are you really talking about spelling nitpicks? Sometimes. I'm trying to be vague because I don't want to pick on specific examples, but what I really mean is nitpicks that are irrelevant to the core question. For me the core pain felt like: - Askers working out how much context to bring to a question - Answerers not presuming there is more context to the question - The ensuing fight spread over answers, re-edits and comments, leaving a gross complicated passive aggressive mess at the end of it So you don't want to explain your entire life story, and when you encounter problems you usually aren't working on something that easily compresses into 20 lines of code. So there is expected and undestandable challenge in compressing your example. Not bringing too much context is also important, because you're trying to ask one specific question, not the hundreds of potential questions in your codebase. But often times I feel answerers will take your example, presume it's literally that, even with `foo` and `bar` as classnames or whatever, and take it completely as face value and then point out why it's obviously stupid, even when those stupid things are ancillary to the main point, and there only because it's compressed example code. Extra context to my opinions here: I haven't seriously contributed to SO in at least 5 years. I probably ask 1-2 questions a year now, and do so with great trepidation. Grain of salt and all that,