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Since I answer 10-20 questions a week I happen to know that all questions are not off topic. It's more likely you asked an of topic question. The 3 most common

Since I answer 10-20 questions a week I happen to know that all questions are not off topic. It's more likely you asked an of topic question. The 3 most common off topic questions 1. Asking for a library recommendation I want to do X? What library should I use? 2. Asking for debugging help without putting the code in the question My code doesn't work. Here's a link to my github repo 3. Asking an overly general question How do I 3d in Python?

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When I used to use the site several years ago, I would spend easily a hour or two crafting a question to avoid the train of mods and trolls questioning why I wasn’t doing it using their preferred framework or tool. I would write a clear question with context, and include the things I tried but didn’t work. It got to a point where writing a question that would pass the gauntlet of mods and people looking for easy rep would result in no answers. My takeaway was that SO only works for superficial questions where folks could maximize their rep/hour. These days I go directly to the maintainers on GitHub or through commercial support. If those channels aren’t available, I avoid the dependency. Crowdsourced answers to technical issues worked for the first few years on SO, but game theory has ruined it.