Tip #10 – What, not how
When posting a question, don’t say how (or how not) you want people to answer it (for example, “I don’t want to hear about xxx”, “Only solutions in yyy”), but explain what you are attempting to achieve. This gives context to your question and better answers will result.
By telling people how you want to do things, you are limiting the answers and possibly offending them.
Tip #1 – Ask a question
Tip #2 – Be polite
Tip #3 – Ask one question
Tip #4 – Descriptive title
Tip #5 – Write in English
Tip #6 – Pertinent code samples
Tip #7 – Stay on topic
Tip #8 – Do some research
Tip #9 – Stay engaged
This is something I don’t understand. People get so pissed if you don’t provide full context of you problem, they yell, they down-vote and everything. Sometimes you can’t provide full context, because either the problem is too complex, and you end up writing a 10 pages question that nobody will read/follow/answer, or simply you would like to know exactly why your solution doesn’t work.
Well… if you have to respect requirements, you need to specify the “how”.
There is a difference between saying “these are my constraints” and saying how to solve them.