Timeline for answer to Why is "Can someone help me?" not a useful question? by NoDataDumpNoContribution
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| Oct 26, 2023 at 13:45 | history | edited | Heretic Monkey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
name of the network is two words
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| Oct 12, 2020 at 9:29 | history | edited | NoDataDumpNoContribution | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
many thanks to Peter Mortensen for never giving up improving my language
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| Oct 11, 2020 at 16:54 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | The "How to ...?" form is too illiterate (it is missing the auxiliary (or helping) verb). Either drop the question mark or use standard QUASM. | |
| Apr 25, 2019 at 15:07 | comment | added | BradleyDotNET | Oh, I agree its not 100%. This is simply here as a guide to those questions to which it applies. | |
| Apr 25, 2019 at 15:03 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Btw. it's also a language thing. Just look at the search for "can someone help me". Remarkably often the phrase is in the question title. Maybe can+someone+help should just not be allowed in titles. | |
| Apr 25, 2019 at 8:48 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @BradleyDotNET Sure, but while it's common, it's not a 100% thing. In some cases it's still a valid question and then editing and answering it is recommended. Just wanted to add that with my answer. | |
| Apr 25, 2019 at 8:46 | history | edited | NoDataDumpNoContribution | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 224 characters in body
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| Apr 24, 2019 at 17:57 | comment | added | BradleyDotNET | You are correct, this Q/A was written to respond to people saying we shouldn't be closing them. Commonly the lack of a specific question seems to be accompanied by "Can someone help me?" hence the title | |
| Apr 24, 2019 at 17:08 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @BradleyDotNET Everyone asking a question is "just looking for help". Not having a specific question at all means that the question should be closed. Having a specific question but not formulating it well means that you can improve the question and then answer it, if you want or you downvote and move on. | |
| Apr 24, 2019 at 15:32 | comment | added | BradleyDotNET | The problem is not wording, the problem is people "just looking for help" as opposed to having a specific question | |
| S Apr 24, 2019 at 8:03 | history | answered | NoDataDumpNoContribution | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Apr 24, 2019 at 8:03 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by NoDataDumpNoContribution |