Timeline for answer to Why is "Can someone help me?" not a useful question? by Bernhard Barker
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| Apr 24, 2019 at 3:41 | comment | added | Jerry | Asking a good question is a skill like any other, and we do the community a disservice to simply point people to this question when they don't yet have the vocabulary to process it, and all they see is a bunch of old men on the porch grumping about the damn kids. We might not be in the business of teaching people to program, but if we don't TEACH people to ask questions, we are doing a disservice to the world we are supposed to be improving. | |
| Feb 2, 2019 at 5:27 | history | edited | Jonathan Leffler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2017 at 21:28 | comment | added | Bernhard Barker | @BradleyDotNET Part of the problem is perhaps that you're referring to a very specific usage of the question, whereas I see this post linked any time the question appears in a post, which is presumably not what you intended when you originally posted this. | |
| Jul 2, 2017 at 21:27 | comment | added | Bernhard Barker | @BradleyDotNET I probably would've instead opted to point out that's way too broad, some specific things that can be answered to justify it being too broad and possibly mentioned why being too broad is a problem (or I would've just voted to close it). To me, "can you help me" is implied in every single question, similar to "thanks in advance" or "I don't know what to do" - removing it generally has absolutely no effect on the appropriateness of the question, so putting a significant amount of focus on it seems illogical. | |
| Jul 2, 2017 at 21:20 | history | edited | Bernhard Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2017 at 21:13 | history | edited | Bernhard Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2017 at 20:24 | comment | added | BradleyDotNET | I can't agree that linking here doesn't help. There are a lot of people on SO who need to understand the principles in this Q/A. Sure; specific guidance is great (though difficult at scale). FWIW this whole question was spawned by an actual conversation (in comments) where the OP insisted that asking for "general help with his project" was an acceptable question here. | |
| Jul 2, 2017 at 19:12 | history | edited | Bernhard Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2017 at 19:06 | history | edited | Bernhard Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 17:41 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Martijn PietersMod | ||
| Jan 21, 2017 at 3:17 | comment | added | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | More often, it just evaluates to "gimme teh codez." | |
| Aug 26, 2015 at 18:21 | history | edited | Bernhard Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 26, 2015 at 18:16 | history | answered | Bernhard Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |