I've seen my share of downvoted and closed questions from others, and often it comes down to users expecting the site to adapt to their needs rather than realizing they are a guest on someone else's site. SO doesn't exist to be your personal support site where others are obligated to help you on your terms.

When you're a guest, you follow their rules. And their rules are fairly simple:

- Stay on topic

- Don't duplicate existing questions (look before you ask)

- Ask a specific question ("how do I fix it?" is not a specific question)

- Be polite (no one is getting paid to answer your question)

- Don't be a spammer (and avoid looking like a spammer)

With coding questions, it really helps to:

- Reduce the problem to a specific detail and be concise, if I haven't finished reading the question and have an idea of the answer in 30 seconds, I move on.

- Provide enough detail that someone else could reproduce your issue. So many people assume I have remote access to their laptop, not to mention what they are thinking inside their head.

- Write it in English, with punctuation, and capitalization. If there's a 10 line block of text without a single capital letter or period, I move on. Same goes for anyone with their capslock key stuck in the on position. I try my best to understand non-native English speakers, because I sure can't talk in their language, but sadly when there's a language barrier, I move on fairly quickly.