How To Ask a Good Question in the Forums#

I found this on CSS Tricks and it has good tips that could be applied to all forums.
http://css-tricks.com/how-to-ask-a-good-question-in-the-forums/

there ar some questions on the forum that require more effort to understand than to resolve. One of my bigget forum pet-peeve are titles that don't give any hints to the problems at hand. Like "Help" or "It doesn't work". I no longer read these (well I still do but don't like to).

What is your forum pet-peeve?

I saw that this morning as well. Highly recommended.

Chris's site and presentation skills are just simply amazing. He has two main things going for him: one, he is a very talented guy with a wide range of technical skills, and two, he has excellent communication skills. He can take quite complicated technical material and present it in a straightforward manner that builds up from the basics one step at a time. He uses illustrations, sample code, live demonstrations, screencasts and language (that does not assume too much from the reader) to present his topics.

I have toured quite a few web design and development sites and very few of them match the communication techniques that Chris employs. To be honest there have been times when I have been reading some of the MODx verbiage and have have asked myself "if only this material was presented in the manner that Chris uses..."

Max

Number 4 is my peeve "Exact details".

I forget to check back on threads a lot. After a question is asked many times I will ask for clarification on the question and may forget to not check back :-/ maybe thats my own problem tho...