[INFO] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

[FZ]

Saya menemukan bacaan yang cukup bagus mengenai cara bertanya di forum.. karena kebanyakan member forum ini hanya bisa bertanya dan malas mencari jawaban.. 
walau bacaan ini berbau IT, namun bisa diambil agar kita LEBIH CERDAS dalam BERTANYA..

When You Ask

Choose your forum carefullyBe sensitive in choosing where you ask your question.  You are  likely to be ignored, or written off as a loser, if you:

   
• post your question to a forum where it's off topic
• post a very elementary question to a forum where  advanced technical questions are expected, or vice-versa
• cross-post to too many different newsgroups
• post a personal e-mail to somebody who is neither  an acquaintance of yours nor personally responsible for solving your problem

Use meaningful, specific subject headersOn mailing lists, newsgroups or Web forums, the subject header  is your golden opportunity to attract qualified experts' attention in  around 50 characters or fewer.  Don't waste it on babble like  “Please help me” (let alone “PLEASE HELP  ME!!!!”; messages with subjects like that get discarded by  reflex).  Don't try to impress us with the depth of your anguish; use  the space for a super-concise problem description instead.
One good convention for subject headers, used by many tech support  organizations, is “object - deviation”. The  “object” part specifies what thing or group of things is  having a problem, and the “deviation” part describes the  deviation from expected behavior.

Stupid:  HELP!  Video doesn't work properly on my laptop!
Smart:X.org 6.8.1 misshapen mouse cursor, Fooware MV1005 vid. chipset
Smarter: X.org 6.8.1 mouse cursor on Fooware MV1005 vid. chipset - is misshapen

Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled languageWe've found by experience that people who are careless and  sloppy writers are usually also careless and sloppy at thinking and  coding (often enough to bet on, anyway). Answering questions for  careless and sloppy thinkers is not rewarding; we'd rather spend our  time elsewhere.
So expressing your question clearly and well is important.  If  you can't be bothered to do that, we can't be bothered to pay  attention.  Spend the extra effort to polish your language.  It  doesn't have to be stiff or formal â€" in fact, hacker culture  values informal, slangy and humorous language used with precision.  But it has to be precise; there has to be some  indication that you're thinking and paying attention.
Spell, punctuate, and capitalize correctly.  Don't confuse  “its” with “it's”, “loose” with  “lose”, or “discrete” with  “discreet”.  Don't TYPE IN ALL CAPS; this is read as  shouting and considered rude. (All-smalls is only slightly less  annoying, as it's difficult to read.  Alan Cox can get away with it,  but you can't.)
More generally, if you write like a semi-literate boob you will  very likely be ignored.  So don't use instant-messaging shortcuts.  Spelling "you" as "u" makes you look like a semi-literate boob to save  two entire keystrokes.  Worse: writing like a l33t script kiddie hax0r is  the absolute kiss of death and guarantees you will receive nothing but  stony silence (or, at best, a heaping helping of scorn and sarcasm) in  return.

If you are asking questions in a forum that does not use your  native language, you will get a limited amount of slack for spelling  and grammar errors â€" but no extra slack at all for laziness (and  yes, we can usually spot that difference).  Also, unless you know what  your respondent's languages are, write in English.  Busy hackers tend  to simply flush questions in languages they don't understand, and  English is the working language of the Internet.  By writing in  English you minimize your chances that your question will be discarded  unread.Be precise and informative about your problem

   
•   Describe the symptoms of your problem or bug carefully and clearly. 
•   Describe the environment in which it occurs (machine, OS, application,  whatever).  Provide your vendor's distribution and release level  (e.g.: “Fedora Core 7”, “Slackware 9.1”, etc.).   
•   Describe the research you did to try and understand the problem   before you asked the question. 
•   Describe the diagnostic steps you took to try and pin down the problem  yourself before you asked the question. 
•   Describe any possibly relevant recent changes in your computer or  software configuration. 
•   If at all possible, provide a way to reproduce the  problem in a controlled environment. 

Source : http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[wang ai lie]

maaf bro kalau bisa terjemahannya, sudah di coba ke google translate malah makin pusing bacanya 

[johan3000]

maksudnya kira2 begitu :

Mohon Bantuan (apa yg hrs dilakukan utk memperbaikinnya)  :
1. komputer gw gak bisa nyala
2. komputer gw gak bisa nyala pakai window xp
3. komputer gw gak bisa nyala pakai window xp, cuma kelihatan layar biru
4. komputer gw gak bisa nyala pakai window xp, cuma kelihatan layar biru, layar biospun gak muncul
5. komputer gw gak bisa nyala pakai window xp, cuma kelihatan layar biru, layar biospun gak muncul dan terdengar bunyi beep panjang
6. komputer gw gak bisa nyala pakai window xp, cuma kelihatan layar biru, layar biospun gak muncul dan terdengar bunyi beep panjang, sebelumnya disenggol adikku sangat keras.
7. komputer gw desktop gak bisa nyala pakai window xp, cuma kelihatan layar biru, layar biospun gak muncul dan terdengar bunyi beep panjang, sebelumnya disenggol adikku sangat keras.
8. komputer gw desktop mother board XXX gak bisa nyala pakai window xp, cuma kelihatan layar biru, layar biospun gak muncul dan terdengar bunyi beep panjang, sebelumnya disenggol adikku sangat keras.
9. komputer gw desktop mother board XXX gak bisa nyala pakai window xp, cuma kelihatan layar biru, layar biospun gak muncul dan terdengar bunyi beep panjang, sebelumnya disenggol adikku sangat keras. setelah di check di beep table, ternyata keterangannya MEMORY ERROR.


nah semangkin besar no. tsb, semangkin jelas pertanyaan tsb!
bertanya dgn no.9 adalah jauh lebih lengkap dan jelas....maka itu disebut penanya yg pinter (baik)...

[kullatiro]

wah artikel yang menarik lohh, ini kira kira dengan tempat terbatas di title atau judul ketika kita membuat thread /membuat post  dengan kata kata yang di pilih dengan baik hingga memberi umpan balik atau menarik pembaca untuk membaca thread tersebut.