On Stackoverflow, I often come across questions of the type:
I'm trying to do X as seen on site Y.
How do I do it?
Could this type of reverse engineering question be added to What types of questions should I avoid asking?
It seems that they come up often enough and get voted-down/closed enough to warrant a warning in the help center.
For example:
- https://stackoverflow.com/q/17036209/1947286
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- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16914729/how-to-make-image-map-popup-with-jquery
Related: How to handle "How do they do that" type of questions