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标 题: how to ask questions smartly ??? (15)
发信站: 听涛站 (2002年07月19日17:54:34 星期五), 站内信件
Don't post homework questions
Hackers are good at spotting homework questions; most of us have done them o
urselves. Those questions are for you to work out, so that you will learn fr
om the experience. It is OK to ask for hints, but not for entire solutions.
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Prune pointless queries
Resist the temptation to close your request for help with semantically-null
questions like "Can anyone help me?" or "Is there an answer?" First: if you'
ve written your problem description halfway competently, such tacked-on ques
tions are at best superfluous. Second: because they are superfluous, hackers
find them annoying — and are likely to return logically impeccable but dis
missive answers like "Yes, you can be helped" and "No, there is no help for
you."
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Don't flag your question as "Urgent", even if it is for you.
That's your problem, not ours. Claiming urgency is very likely to be counter
-productive: most hackers will simply delete such messages as rude and selfi
sh attempts to elicit immediate and special attention.
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Courtesy never hurts, and sometimes helps
Be courteous. Use "Please" and "Thanks in advance". Make it clear that you a
ppreciate the time people spend helping you for free.
To be honest, this isn't as important as (and cannot substitute for) being g
rammatical, clear, precise and descriptive, avoiding proprietary formats etc
.; hackers in general would rather get somewhat brusque but technically shar
p bug reports than polite vagueness. (If this puzzles you, remember that we
value a question by what it teaches us.)
However, if you've got your technical ducks in a row, politeness does increa
se your chances of getting a useful answer.
(We must note that the only serious objection we have received to this how-t
o from veteran hackers is to the recommendation to use "Thanks in advance".
Some hackers feel this connotes an intention not to thank anybody afterwards
. Our recommendation is to do both.)
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