How to get useful answers to your questions

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5 years ago I wrote a post called how to ask good questions . I still really like that post, but it's missing a few of the tactics I use to get useful answers like "interrupt people when they're going off on an irrelevant tangent". what can go wrong when asking questions Often when I ask a vague or underspecified question, what happens is one of: the person starts by explaining a bunch of stuff I already know the person explains some things which I don't know, but which I don't think are relevant to my problem the person starts giving a relevant explanation, but using terminology that I don't

How to get useful answers to your questions

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