How can I ask questions well on Help.HacksHackers.com?
I just wrote something to coach a poster on how to ask better questions. I thought I’d repost it as a question so that people can aggregate answers in one place. Please consider answering here if you find yourself doing the same kind of coaching in other threads.
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First, Go read the FAQ. Please. At least skim the questions!
Please use the code formatting tools when posting code so that people can actually read what you want them to see. Some instruction about how this works can be found in the MetaStackOverflow post How do I format my code blocks?
Second, whenever possible you should include a link to a problem case that we can see or even experiment with, so that we are sure you haven't left something important out.
If you can't provide a link, provide complete files so that we can run them ourselves. Don't paste long blocks of code into questions, even if you format them. Use something like Pastebin. http://pastebin.com/wv7LYtNN Pastebin will format it, as seen in that link, and also let you get the raw text for copy/paste into a local file as in http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wv7LYtNN
Don't repost your question as an answer to yourself. Edit the question instead. Use comments to respond to specific answers.
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