Comments on: How to Ask Smart Questions by Martin Owens

By: pleia2

pleia2 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:17:19 +0000

@Reddog Pretty much every slide describes a situation in IRC where someone asks a question in a way that doesn’t get them an answer very quickly.

Not researching first means you’re taking valuable time of volunteers (and of yourself, a google search is often faster than explaining a problem to strangers on IRC!), asking in the wrong place won’t get you an answer, not giving details or being clear from the beginning means that volunteers helping you need to dig that information out of you, asking to ask in a channel means that a volunteer needs to take the time to give you permission to ask instead of just having you ask, asking a single person who helped you in the past puts burden on that single volunteer (who may not be at their keyboard!)…

By: Reddog

Reddog — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:13:39 +0000

I don’t get it… What is this all about? Why questions need asked better?

By: Martin Owens

Martin Owens — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:47:48 +0000

Simon: If you can come up with the script, then perhaps it’d be possible to have such a guide.

Email me and we’ll talk. doctormo at ubuntu.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:26:21 +0000

This is great. i think that some of those that answer the question could do with a guide to answering questions without being rude and/or terse!

By: jazzy

jazzy — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:36:03 +0000

good info

By: Martin Owens

Martin Owens — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:01:58 +0000

Thank you so much for blogging about it, we’ve got a translation system set up now for people who want to work on it.