For example, are you doing front-line tech support and looking to ask better questions of your L2s?
Are you doing dev work, and looking to ask better questions of more experienced developers?
In general, one of my biggest frustrations when people ask questions is: they aren't clear about what question they are asking, or what they are looking for. If you can, boil your question down to one sentence: "Can you tell me what the syntax for (thing X) is?"
Also, in my experience, people get a warm and fuzzy feeling when you ask a question AND say something like "I've read the documentation, I've checked DuckDuckGo, I've checked our internal Wiki/tech notes/databases, and I've searched StackOverflow, and I can't find anything relevant to this issue." Folks will go a little (or a lot) further for you if you show them you've done your homework first.
For example, are you doing front-line tech support and looking to ask better questions of your L2s?
Are you doing dev work, and looking to ask better questions of more experienced developers?
In general, one of my biggest frustrations when people ask questions is: they aren't clear about what question they are asking, or what they are looking for. If you can, boil your question down to one sentence: "Can you tell me what the syntax for (thing X) is?"
Also, in my experience, people get a warm and fuzzy feeling when you ask a question AND say something like "I've read the documentation, I've checked DuckDuckGo, I've checked our internal Wiki/tech notes/databases, and I've searched StackOverflow, and I can't find anything relevant to this issue." Folks will go a little (or a lot) further for you if you show them you've done your homework first.