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by alttag 2425 days ago
I have a question I want to ask, but haven't. This is mostly because I feel that asking it properly, describing what I've tried, linking to (not) duplicates and explaining why they're not relevant, and linking to the docs to try and explain why I don't understand them, etc., etc, is a great deal of work. In other words, explain why the top 20 Google and SO results and workarounds aren't relevant to the answer I'm looking for. Doing it "properly" would take about 30 minutes. ... and thus I haven't asked.

I went with a workaround that I'm unsatisfied with because it was easier than asking a good question.

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I see what you mean, but when it comes to the rigor required to putting together a good question, this is no different than say filling in an issue template when reporting a bug or asking for support in a Github repository, right? Do you avoid that for the same reason? Not that I would blame you, I for one hate filling in overly defensive issue templates designed to discourage drive by shitty issue posters, but inadvertently alienating otherwise decent posters, such as (hopefully) myself.