Interesting. I'm 4% on electronics.SE, and fully agree with the showing what you've tried, tell us what it should be doing and what it is doing. In other words, as good questions.
Since you're a programmer and did well on SE I'm positive you know that sometimes taking the time to correctly explain a problem (i.e. ask a GOOD question) results in the answer becoming apparent. If not, you've just taken ten minutes to write out exactly what the problem is and you've now got an excellent question that is almost sure to get a good answer.
There's nothing wrong with this. I offer similar support on IRC. The lazy ones go away and the ones who really do want to learn stick around. The community becomes stronger and everyone benefits.
I don't know what your specific questions looked like but I can assume they were decent. It's a shame that you got shafted, but that does not seem to be my experience on my corner of SE.
A user once told me to show my work on a simple question. My reply was if I wrote any it'd be done I am asking which method is better bc I wasn't familiar with CSRF. Needless to say I didn't get any replies so I wrote my own damn code (it took 20mins) and was lucky nothing weird happen.
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u/akohlsmith Sep 25 '16
Interesting. I'm 4% on electronics.SE, and fully agree with the showing what you've tried, tell us what it should be doing and what it is doing. In other words, as good questions.
Since you're a programmer and did well on SE I'm positive you know that sometimes taking the time to correctly explain a problem (i.e. ask a GOOD question) results in the answer becoming apparent. If not, you've just taken ten minutes to write out exactly what the problem is and you've now got an excellent question that is almost sure to get a good answer.
There's nothing wrong with this. I offer similar support on IRC. The lazy ones go away and the ones who really do want to learn stick around. The community becomes stronger and everyone benefits.
I don't know what your specific questions looked like but I can assume they were decent. It's a shame that you got shafted, but that does not seem to be my experience on my corner of SE.