How to correctly ask a question
In the world of administrator.de, the answers given to a question depend on both, the way the question was asked, and the difficulty of finding an answer.
This guideline shows how questions should be formulated to get a satisfying answer :
Every questioner should take note of the following points:
Depending on the question, the following information may also be required:
This should make it easier for our community to actually respond to questions and answer them.
This guideline shows how questions should be formulated to get a satisfying answer :
Every questioner should take note of the following points:
- choose a meaningful title (not: “URGENTLY NEED HELP!!!!!!!”). The title of your post should immediately make clear what it is about.
- add a greeting at the beginning (e.g. "Hello" or "Hi", etc.). And a name or nickname under the text is just nice.
- On the other hand, the phrase “Thanks in advance!” is superfluous. We prefer to get feedback after suggesting a solution. And all readers also want to know whether the answer posted helped.
- Be polite and formulate your contribution with respect for other users - everyone helps voluntarily, free of charge and as best as they can.
- Use punctuation marks and upper and lower case letters, if possible grammatically correct sentences.
- After writing, check the text again for spelling errors.
- Anything illegal does not belong to a post.
- A short description with all significant and required information.
Depending on the question, the following information may also be required:
- Operating system/program version, service pack etc., rough hardware configuration
- Manufacturer and name of the program
- Network infrastructure, such as routers/firewalls/switches, etc...
- The attempted solution strategies that did not lead to success.
- Possibly error messages from the software and/or in log files, also as screenshots
This should make it easier for our community to actually respond to questions and answer them.