I disagree with the topic you think the piece is even about. The piece isn't about having a well thought out question at all. It's about not asking for permissi

I disagree with the topic you think the piece is even about. The piece isn't about having a well thought out question at all. It's about not asking for permission to ask the question. People don't want to say "sure, I'm around" and then 5-10 minutes later say "sorry, I don't have experience with that". They want people to ask a question to the best of their ability and if they think they can help they will. The domain I'm thinking about in my example is tournament organizing. So many questions start off with. > Can someone help me? Or > I have a question. And want nothing else than a 'sure' or 'yes?' before asking their questions. But why not just ask the question / state the issue that is almost always already thought out as: > I'm having an issue with registering my team. Or > Am I eligible to participate if X? There was no long and thought out process of "logical and formalized" question forming here. It was just avoiding the waste of time between the asker having a question and getting an answer.