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[WiP] Why Certain Questions Frustrate Me #667
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I opened this issue a couple of weeks ago to capture my thoughts on the way people ask questions. We recently got the following question on one of our GitHub repositories: I have made every effort to anonymise the identity of the person asking the question as my objective is not "naming and shaming", but rather to capture my thoughts and share "constructive feedback". If you are easily offended ❄️ by constructive feedback please don't read any further. Note on asking questions: While we are always welcoming of questions in the @dwyl community and we do our best to answer them in a helpful and polite way, there are ways of asking questions that will lead to faster progress. (i.e. if you ask better questions you will learn/ship faster!) This question appears to be "exploratory" ... the words "is there anyway" suggests the OP has not done much googling or taken the time to write the 10 lines of code needed to test this out first.
I usually give people the benefit of the doubt, because
I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt and answered in the most polite and helpful way I could: The "time poor" and frustrated person in me would have simply closed the issue because the person has put almost zero effort into formulating the question. |
Relevant to this is: http://sscce.org ("Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example") |
... there are many ways of asking questions.
"Should we ...?"
"Should I ...?"
"Should somebody [
else
] ...?""Why isn't ... done yet?"
"What's the problem with ...?"
"What should I do next?"
There are questions that show that someone is engaged in the problem they are attempting to solve,
and there are questions that clearly show that the person is not minimally interested in making an effort and just wants someone
else
to make the problem "go away".I plan on expanding this into a more thorough post.
I just want to capture the seed of the thought here so I can get back to my other work!
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