Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v.3.02

My New Bible

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Some quotes:

Introduction
What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks — they take without giving back, they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer. We call people like this “losers” (and for historical reasons we sometimes spell it “lusers”).

Before You Ask
Prepare your question. Think it through. Hasty-sounding questions get hasty answers, or none at all. The more you do to demonstrate that you have put thought and effort into solving your problem before asking for help, the more likely you are to actually get help.

This is awesome stuff!

Posted by Ezra at September 10, 2004 08:52 AM