99% of the questions that don't get answered are either
too ambiguous, too general, or overly wordy and ask for
too much. Sometimes there isn't even a question in the
post. Hint: keep it clear, keep it concise, and be polite.
Lately newbies to this NG are starting new threads, but
are trying to continue conversations or ask follow-up
questions from a previous thread. It's impossible to
follow and unnecessarily bloats and disorganizes the
google archives.
it seems that the questions that don't get answered are few and far between.
I enjoy contributing to the forum but, more often than not, questions
actually appear with answers already posted.
I've seen dozens if not hundreds of questions answered where I didn't even
understand the question. The question has been read, digested, interpreted
and solutions coded in a matter of minutes ... often with variations
depending on what the OP might have meant.
I think the questions looked upon most favourably are those where the OP
explains the problem clearly, gives a (text) sample of the data and the
expected results AND ideally the code or function they have tried to create.
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