What stackoverflow questions bring out the best in you? [closed]

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Published on 2010-05-20T12:21:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 12:30 UTC
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This question is to help me (us) ask better questions of this community to encourage better working together.

What questions here bring out the best in you? I don't mean which are the best / most appropriate questions but which bring the best out of you? That is, it brings out your best thinking and most constructive behaviour.

Consider, for example, questions that make you think or that are asked in a certain way. Or consider specific a question should be.

Or more abstractly, questions asked on a certain day / time, ...

So I'm not necessarily asking about specific subjects but rather how a question is asked. What inspires you to drop everything and start answering?

This comes from my observing questions that get highest points - I’m graduating with a Computer Science degree but I don’t feel like I know how to program. is very positive but my first ever question caused a minor storm.

Ironically, I'm nervous posting this question so please don't attack if this is inappropriate.

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