> attempt or willingness to try to solve the problem first on their own… indication of where the problem comes from, why it might be interesting None of that i

> attempt or willingness to try to solve the problem first on their own… indication of where the problem comes from, why it might be interesting None of that is required to ask questions on stackoverflow. For details, read “How do I ask a good question?” and “What types of questions should I avoid asking?” help articles. You’re inventing arbitrary restrictions. Another thing is, “why it might be interesting” is subjective. Personally, I found the question interesting, that’s why I have answered it. You probably think otherwise, but note it only takes 3-5 votes to kill the question. Any question at all is guaranteed to have at least 3-5 people on that site who find it uninteresting, opinion-based, need more focus, duplicate, etc. > Two very big and different problem, asking the audience to do them both. Two big problems don’t have solutions which can be both explained in 3 short sentences. As you can see from my answer, the problem formulated in that question has such solution. > I already showed more willingness to try to solve this problem than OP You have not. However, you have demonstrated willingness to delete interesting questions based on arbitrary and subjective criteria, despite the question is perfectly in line with the stackoverflow guidelines. Which BTW is very on-topic, because I think that’s the main reason for the fall of SO being discussed here.