Just to say, wandering around on internet chats seeking for someone to talk, or a breaking news, or simply talking with kin friends, you may see someone popping up asking at the general chat or some bulletins uttering something similar to the following:
AKinkyDude9169: anyone around there?
AKinkyDude9169: hello?
AKinkyDude9169: need help lmao
Well, what a concise opening right? No. It's just too short. It's missing a lot. Yes. Really.
If you are trying to ask for help, there are a heap of reasons many people will not choose to throw a look at your message. This is probably what the guy mean:
AKinkyDude9169: anyone around here willing to hear me out on this problem im having so that i can reckon a way to solve it?
or rewrite it to suit your need. Please at least add something detailed if you at least want people to engage in the convo in the first place. In the first example, writing like that will make people think it's just a casual greeting or a simple drop-in, without a real sign of asking (or even if it is anyways, won't be enough to whet people's appetite).
Giving more details into your questions can depend on what you need help with, for example with coding or with your homework, or you are doing in a project:
AKinkyDude9169: hi all. i am pretty much a Rust newb, and now i just want to ask what's wrong with my code? here is the code btw
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If you feel too lazy to try asking adequately, then there might be no reason people will likely try to help you. Don't cause more questions to the convo. Don't raise more scepticism in whether what your purpose is. It might waste more of your time, or other's time.
So, short as said, don't ask to (cause more to) ask. Just ask. That's it.
inspired by Don't ask to ask, a web article that took a whole domain to stay in, which in turn "stole" from this article at Sol_HSA. This is greatly paraphrased in a non programming context with pseudo-programming examples so that it will not look like a blatant copy.
a part of my off-blog series of articles.
username is just for fun, not a reference to any real person. if it happens, it is 100% a coincidence. trust me mates.