Timeline for Why is "Can someone help me?" not a useful question?
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| Jul 20, 2025 at 1:45 | history | edited | JaMiT | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 21, 2025 at 8:37 | comment | added | Jeyekomon | "Can you help me?" Yes, I can. Do you have any other questions? | |
| May 1, 2025 at 1:06 | history | edited | Tangentially Perpendicular | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 3, 2024 at 3:46 | comment | added | Stephen C | "I believe the question "Can someone help me?" is more of an implicit question ..." - Well it can be. But often it isn't. | |
| May 28, 2024 at 21:28 | history | rollback | wjandrea |
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| May 24, 2024 at 0:26 | history | edited | Lamper46 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2024 at 8:10 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2024 at 7:04 | history | edited | Bending Rodriguez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 20, 2023 at 17:22 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | Similar (MSE): Should we forbid “please help me” titles? | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 12:56 | history | edited | Cody GrayMod |
Rollback to Revision 21: There is no need for such a "canonical link". Copying and pasting this into a comment below a question is inappropriate. Such comments will be deleted 100% of the time.
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| Mar 9, 2023 at 10:00 | history | edited | 3limin4t0r | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 24, 2019 at 8:03 | answer | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | timeline score: -15 | |
| Apr 22, 2019 at 8:44 | history | edited | Raedwald | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2019 at 21:58 | history | edited | Cody GrayMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2018 at 6:57 | history | edited | Jonathan Hall | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2017 at 18:12 | history | edited | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2017 at 20:42 | answer | added | user64742 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 9, 2017 at 3:50 | history | edited | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 1:09 | answer | added | Xorifelse | timeline score: 22 | |
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 17:41 | history | edited | Martijn PietersMod |
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 17:15 | history | edited | Makoto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2017 at 10:05 | history | edited | Cerbrus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2017 at 22:07 | comment | added | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | Related: Why is "Is it possible to..." a poorly worded question? and Open Letter to Students with Homework Assignments. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 17:10 | history | edited | ruakh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 21, 2017 at 3:25 | answer | added | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | timeline score: 67 | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 22:26 | history | edited | Pshemo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 17:30 | history | edited | BradleyDotNET | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 20:38 | history | edited | user4639281 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 19:56 | history | rollback | user3453226 |
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 19:11 | history | rollback | user4639281 |
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 18:50 | history | edited | user3453226 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 26, 2015 at 18:16 | answer | added | Bernhard Barker | timeline score: 64 | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 16:28 | vote | accept | BradleyDotNET | ||
| Apr 30, 2015 at 21:18 | history | edited | BradleyDotNET | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2015 at 11:02 | answer | added | Andrew G | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 22:45 | answer | added | Mario Robles | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 15:00 | comment | added | ShellFish | I believe the question "Can someone help me?" is more of an implicit question resulting from a previous issue. While I believe this question to be good, most of the time it can easily be replaced by an explicit question stating the causing problem. Like when I'd say "x doesn't work. ... Can someone help me?", it better be phrased "Why doesn't x work?". | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 22:15 | history | edited | Jeffrey Bosboom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 20:03 | history | edited | BradleyDotNET | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 17:39 | history | edited | BradleyDotNET | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 17:01 | history | edited | BradleyDotNET | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 6:19 | comment | added | Jeffrey Kemp | Good post. The only questions that this will be troublesome for are those that are posed by students tasked with a seemingly stupid programming assignment (e.g. "write a query to join two tables without using any join operator") - where the answer inevitably boils down to, "ask your teacher what they were thinking". | |
| S Jan 22, 2015 at 4:07 | answer | added | BradleyDotNET | timeline score: 679 | |
| S Jan 22, 2015 at 4:07 | history | asked | BradleyDotNET | CC BY-SA 3.0 |