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Me neither. But I think to ask a good question (on SO or to a more senior colleague at work) is a skill itself. Most people don't have it. Even most developers

Me neither. But I think to ask a good question (on SO or to a more senior colleague at work) is a skill itself. Most people don't have it. Even most developers don't have it, which is somewhat surprising. Also this skill is not taught actively, or at least not widely. So people end up asking these poorly worded or poorly aimed questions. And they receive hardly any help to get it right. Neither before (in their education), nor during/after (when using SO).

mdaniel 4y ago
> And they receive hardly any help to get it right. Neither before (in their education), nor during/after (when using SO). I've never asked a question in order to know what the question guidance is like, but _undoubtedly_ there is a well written "how to ask" page <https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask> and (one that I cite in comments so often I have a bookmarklet for it) the "please rubber duck your way to the question before vomiting into SO" that used to be called MCVE <https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example> Now, saying "ain't nobody got time to read all that text, I got bugs to write!" is a reasonable response, but saying "there's no guidance on how to write a question less likely to be closed" is untrue