https://github.com/petdance/asksmart
A guide to asking for help, but without celebrating rudeness as ESR's "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" does
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A guide to asking for help, but without celebrating rudeness as ESR's "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" does
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/petdance/asksmart
- Owner: petdance
- Created: 2012-07-07T20:32:18.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-05-01T16:38:35.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-17T00:53:06.605Z (3 months ago)
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- Stars: 8
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 8
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# asksmart.org
AskSmart.org will be a single-purpose website for hosting a guide to
asking smart technical questions so the asker is more likely to get
back useful answers.
This guide is written as an antidote to ESR's
["How to Ask Questions The Smart Way"](http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)
[(alternate)](http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/smart-questions.html)
which celebrates hostility and rudeness. It claims
that RTFM is "an ancient and hallowed tradition". It claims that
abusing those who don't ask questions correctly is "healthy and
appropriate." These are the attitudes of bullies, and AskSmart
specifically refutes those ideas and others in ESR's piece.
If you'd like to help join us putting this site together, please email me at [email protected].
# Guidelines for writing AskSmart
* Phrase directions in positive, not negative ways. Instead of
"Don't do X", say "Instead of X, do Y" or better yet, just "Do Y."
* Do not mock the reader.
* Assume the best of intentions of the reader.
* Not knowing the answer, or not going through proper steps before
asking a question, is not a moral failing.
* No sarcasm.
* No belittling.