# Good examples of posts asking questions

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/good-examples-of-posts-asking-questions/39938>\
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**Created:** [May 22, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/good-examples-of-posts-asking-questions/39938 "2020-05-22T07:12:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/good-examples-of-posts-asking-questions/39938/1 "2020-05-22T07:12:33Z")

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Hi, there is advice provided to people coming for their first time, about how to make good questions, namely:

> [@Please read: make it easier to help you](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757):
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> Welcome to the Julia Discourse! We are enthusiastic about helping Julia programmers, both beginner and experienced. This public service announcement (PSA) outlines best practices when asking for help. Following these points makes it easier for us to help you and more likely you’ll get a prompt, useful answer. Keywords are highlighted to make it easier to refer to specific points. Choose a descriptive title that captures the key part of your question, eg “plots with multiple axes” instead of …

I think that linking to _good examples_ of such questions might also be inspiring, specially if they are coming from people posting for the first time - such that newcomers may feel more sympathy for that person. They may not be frequent, but happen from time to time, and I think it is worth to praise them. This is a recent one, in my opinion:

> [@Problem with package TableView / Julia usage](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-with-package-tableview-julia-usage/39369):
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> First of all I would like to apologize if my question is too elementary. Although I have some experience with MS Excel VBA I am still a beginner at general use programming languages. Also, I would like to apologize for any misspelling, since English is not my first language. Since I needed to do some rather complex string wrangles I decided to try Python last year so I would have more flexibility to code than in Excel and I really liked it. One problem arouse though, when I was facing a fuzzy l…