This post is a supplement to the [Help Center Article](http://programmers.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask) of the same name. That article, in a nutshell, describes questions that are either too broad, too opinionated, or too discussion-oriented to make good questions for Programmers. This article describes the *specific categories of questions* that you should not ask here.

> **IMPORTANT!**
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> Programmers is a *Software Design, question and answer* site. If you're not asking a specific question about Software Design, *you're probably in the wrong place.*

###Coding Help
If you need help writing or troubleshooting code (or using the tools), the place to ask your question is on Stack Overflow, not here. Read ["What topics can I ask about"](http://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic) before you ask your question there.

###Review My Design
Programmers is not a Design Review site. If you have a specific question about your design, ask that. We don't review entire designs; that's a *discussion,* not a question.

###Name That Thing
Questions that ask "Is there a name for this thing" are just requests for Google help, which we don't provide here. They make poor questions because you can't prove a negative, and not everything has a name. Ask about the actual software design problem you're trying to solve instead.

###Which way is best?
Because you understand the detailed specifications for your software project, you're the one that's in the best position to answer the question "Which way best meets my functional and non-functional software requirements?" 

If you can clearly define what "best" means to you specifically without simply restating "best," then your question might be suitable for asking here. Otherwise, you're just [trotting after a herd](http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/142354/102937).

###Convince my boss/coworker
We're not here to help you win an argument with your boss or coworker. We're here to help you with your Software Design-related questions.

###Customer Service
If you have a question about how a company's commercial product is licensed, priced, serviced, released, etc., the place to ask that question is the company itself, not here.

###Where do I find...?
We don't help people find things here. We don't know where you can find that highly obscure paper/product/whatever. You have access to the same tool we do, which is Google.

###What do you recommend?
We don't make product or service recommendations of any kind here. Try http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com or http://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com, but *read their Help Center first.*