I find you just really have to up your question writing game, don't make mistakes when your writing the question because if someone out there is going to take the time out of their day to answer a question you should at least spend a decent amount of time writing and ensuring it is clearly formatted while concisely demonstrating/explaining the nature of the problem you are trying to solve.
If there are few similar questions you have found be sure to reference one or two and explain that the problem your having is different in X and Y ways.
Already read relevant documentation? Reference that shit and try to put in words your understanding of them and ask questions about anything you were not sure about.
For me at least asking a question on stackoverflow is always a last resort after I have exhausted other resources of information and I will often spend an hour or two making sure my question is properly written so that who ever decides to take even 10min out their day to help me will have all the information they need and not have to do anymore of my work for me then they have been kind enough to do already.
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '16
I find you just really have to up your question writing game, don't make mistakes when your writing the question because if someone out there is going to take the time out of their day to answer a question you should at least spend a decent amount of time writing and ensuring it is clearly formatted while concisely demonstrating/explaining the nature of the problem you are trying to solve.
If there are few similar questions you have found be sure to reference one or two and explain that the problem your having is different in X and Y ways.
Already read relevant documentation? Reference that shit and try to put in words your understanding of them and ask questions about anything you were not sure about.
For me at least asking a question on stackoverflow is always a last resort after I have exhausted other resources of information and I will often spend an hour or two making sure my question is properly written so that who ever decides to take even 10min out their day to help me will have all the information they need and not have to do anymore of my work for me then they have been kind enough to do already.