When a question is asked intelligently with full context of the issue and troubleshooting attempts, said question would most likely be answered in a quick and timely manner of return, yield results that could more effectively help the progression/process of troubleshooting towards a resolution or at least a step forward after every response/supply. What should be implemented while requesting assistance in a forum/portal/discussion platform website such as Stack Overflow, is evidently the error, logs (if applicable), all supporting raw code (if applicable) printed error codes in their entirety, version, model, make, year, setup, configuration, patch, tech specifications, anything really pertinent to helping the readers or otherwise software engineers better assess the issue and continue to help you from where you left off in troubleshooting. A great example which can be found at <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44084846/cannot-connect-to-the-docker-daemon-on-macos”>”Cannot connect to the Docker daemon on macOS”</a> shows an organized approach to collectively gathering one’s thoughts, and proof/evidence of errors/issues, and clearly/concisely interjecting a competent question for post/submission onto Stack Overflow for community support.
On another note, when asking a fairly novice type of question of which the user could have most likely have found an answer for from RTFM or even probably by some digging/searching on the WWW generally, this user could have easily have learned how to fix his problem on his own. If anything, the syntax could have honestly been too similar or obvious for the user to pick up right away. A question with funny replies to an example on Stack Overflow is as follows <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-operator-in-c-c/8909176#8909176”>”What is the –> operator in C/C++?”</a> In this post you will find the user is simply asking the relevancy of the usage of “–>” in the context of a while loop. One of the comments to the post follows:
“Or for something completely different… x slides to 0. Not so mathematical, but… every picture paints a thousand words…” - Dr. Gut
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After seeing some pretty hilarious examples while looking up questions on Stack Overflow, I noticed some of the most down voted questions and found may questions were essentially a waste of time for readers that had replied, so much so that even Stack Overflow seems to lock questions/answers on posts that have seem to cause arguments, etc.