Comments on: How to Ask Smart Questions by Martin Owens https://princessleia.com/journal/2010/07/how-to-ask-smart-questions/ Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph's public journal about open source, mainframes, beer, travel, pink gadgets and her life near the city where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars. Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: pleia2 https://princessleia.com/journal/2010/07/how-to-ask-smart-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-2892 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:17:19 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3248#comment-2892 @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!)…

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By: Reddog https://princessleia.com/journal/2010/07/how-to-ask-smart-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-2891 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:13:39 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3248#comment-2891 I don’t get it… What is this all about? Why questions need asked better?

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By: Martin Owens https://princessleia.com/journal/2010/07/how-to-ask-smart-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-2889 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:47:48 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3248#comment-2889 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.

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By: Simon https://princessleia.com/journal/2010/07/how-to-ask-smart-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-2887 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:26:21 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3248#comment-2887 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!

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By: jazzy https://princessleia.com/journal/2010/07/how-to-ask-smart-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-2882 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:36:03 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3248#comment-2882 good info

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By: Martin Owens https://princessleia.com/journal/2010/07/how-to-ask-smart-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-2877 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:01:58 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3248#comment-2877 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.

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