"You: Hi! I won! Here's my ticket! Where do I collect my winnings?" You think you are talking to the clerk that will initiate the payout but actually you are t

"You: Hi! I won! Here's my ticket! Where do I collect my winnings?" You think you are talking to the clerk that will initiate the payout but actually you are talking to the machine that made the draw. When you try -h or --help then the result can be nice or not. In general the author gives quite a lot of pointers. However the docs are where it is at and that is from man or Help -> etc. If the docs are provided and if you can't be arsed to read the docs then bugger off! Now this is where it gets tricky. Not all programmers are decent writers of docs nor are all potential consumers of docs decent readers. Now OP is whittering on about incantations requesting help. They only demonstrate a few examples so eventually one of those incantations might work. The important thing is to ensure that a request for help does one of two things: provide help or no op.