Can something to cover reverse engineering questions be added?
Questions like:
I'm trying to X as seen on site/program/app Y. How do I do it?
These questions tend to get down-voted and closed often enough, see examples here.
I've raised a question about adding these to the list of "What types of questions should I avoid asking?"
The response to that question was:
There is a close reason being refined that deals with this, basically saying that questions that just point to third party code without including any specific bits and end in 'how do I do what they did?' aren't on topic. It's not yet baked, so I'm not yet officially answering - but this is one of the cases we considered when coming up with the initial set of close reasons for Stack Overflow. – Tim Post♦ Jun 13 at 1:04