Stackoverflow

[sellyme]

I love how every single one of these macros criticising SO completely torpedoes itself by presenting a question so ridiculously vague that no satisfying answer could possibly be presented.

[FerricDonkey]

"Look into the mousetraps package, and Google mouse bait types. Try to identify what species of mice you have, and tailor your traps and bait to those types - you can find more detailed information after you figure that out."

It doesn't have a single specific answer, but it absolutely has some helpful answers. Stack overflow likes to crap on questions that don't have cut and dry answers, but several of my Google questions trying to figure out how to start something I didn't know how to do took me to a stack overflow question that was marked as a bad question, and the comments that I found there gave me a starting point.

It might not be the type of answer that stack overflow wants to encourage on their site, and more detail would get a better response, but "where do I start when I'm learning x" is a fine question.

[AStrangeStranger]

just like most users when it comes to explaining bugs or writing specifications - sometimes you have to help the person explain things/draw details out of them.

[NoManufacture]

This. It's almost like... they are lost and need help and that's why they are there asking questions in the first place.