[nihilius]

https://dontasktoask.com/

Don't ask to ask, just ask

Every now and then, in online chat rooms I hang around in, someone pops in and says something in the lines of,

    Foobar123:

    Any Java experts around? 

This is bad form, for several reasons. What the person is actually asking here is,

    Foobar123:

    Any Java experts around who are willing to commit into looking into my problem, whatever that may turn out to be, even if it's not actually related to Java or if someone who doesn't know anything about Java could actually answer my question?

[YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo]

And if you want a fast response, you write something like this "I coded XYZ in Java and Java is absolute shit because ABC is bad."

[dgritsko]

Cunningham's Law! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#%22Cunningham'...