Can you give us some context here?<p>For example, are you doing front-line tech support and looking to ask better questions of your L2s?<p>Are you doing dev work, and looking to ask better questions of more experienced developers?<p>In general, one of my biggest frustrations when people ask questions is: they aren't clear about what question they are asking, or what they are looking for. If you can, boil your question down to one sentence: "Can you tell me what the syntax for (thing X) is?"<p>Also, in my experience, people get a warm and fuzzy feeling when you ask a question AND say something like "I've read the documentation, I've checked DuckDuckGo, I've checked our internal Wiki/tech notes/databases, and I've searched StackOverflow, and I can't find anything relevant to this issue." Folks will go a little (or a lot) further for you if you show them you've done your homework first.
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