How do I strive, and have always strived, to make myask questions and answers as pedagogic and clear as they can be, not only on SO, but everywhere. I get a kick of excitementStack Overflow when a question I ask become useful information posts for other people with similar questions, or if one of my answers do the same.
Sometimes I have a brief and simple question,premise of a simple problem and it becomes relatively easy to ask the question in a way that people will understand quickly and determine whether they know an answer to or not.
Other times, I haverequires a huge problem, that I can't really articulate because I don't know how to even go about it. I get the feeling that I know I could explain everything, but it would require tons of lines of text, several drawings, blocks of code and more, to even describe the problem, and then, worstlot of all, I wouldn't be able to put a fitting title.
This is basically what happened withbackground? thisThis question is a good example.
By havingI've read the guidelines on how to ask a question several times (but only understanding how to apply, but with this question it to my world in small steps at a time) I rememberedis hard to trysee how to make the question as "relevantit relevant to others", even though I couldn't see how a question this wide and still specific, could be useful for anyone else than me.
I understand the guidelines, and what they're trying to imply other than that. I just don't see how I can change my perspective, and my way of thinking into following these in every scenariowider internet community.
I know I'm not very good at asking questions. I don't mind the fact that I'm ignorant on some subjects, and that some people will just tell me I'm doing things the wrong way. It's the fact that when I humbly beg for help from relative experts that don't know me at all, I sometimes come off as a pain. And the worst part is that I can see that I'm going to be when I'm writing the question, and then I start editing it over and over, trying to improve it, but it never gets good results (I once edited a question so many times, out of frustration that I couldn't explain it properly, that it turned into a community wiki)am trying.
All every asker ever wants is a good answer. A good answer requires a good question. But if you're not good at asking questions, only few will understand the question, and even fewer will want to answer.
I'm not sureHow do I illustrated my problem here well enough, but mypare a question is basicallydown to its essentials and still not lose context, do anyone have some tipsand keep it relevant for when you have a huge problem that you just don't know how to chop into smaller questionsall programmers, without removing context from the questionand not just me?
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I just read Would a similar question: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/100036/how-to-ask-a-where-to-start-question but I can't imagine anyone in chat would like to read tons of lines of my lousy explanation skills, just to understand my problem and help me out. It's of course relevant to mention that I haven't tried yet, but if the chatrooms are anything like other chatrooms on the web, I wouldn't know how to get attention from the right people, without starting to spam the chat with my thoughts on my problem, or something similar. If you're suggesting using the chatroomsbetter place for this, then how would you go about asking the question theremy questions be in a Stack Overflow Chatroom? Or another Stack Exchange site?
