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The problem with that is the Q's that get 1-voted have nothing to do with what language the OP is native in.

Conveying a context so people who are walking into your question ice cold is a common concept across all languages. The typical response to a bad question like that is usually something like "What are you trying to do with this?".

Also, there's a ton of questions where the OP obviously didn't do the simplest of searches before posting. For example, there's a question in QA right now, 1-voted of course, where the OP says he's trying to write an "OCR application where the inputs are 0..9". OK, fine. OK, no context again so "What part of this are you having a problem with?" There's also tons of articles all over the web on OCR, including a bunch here on CP.

Both of these problems usually get a 1-vote. Again, asking questions is a skill. Doing research is a skill. These are severely lacking in most OP's and they are the two skills that, without, you cannot survive in this industry or even be an effective hobbyist.
A guide to posting questions on CodeProject

Click this: Asking questions is a skill.
Seriously, do it.

Dave Kreskowiak

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