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I will admit, it does get tiresome seeing so many questions that require the user to have a certain level of competency in Magento in order for them to comprehend the answer. I don't mind putting in effort to provide a solid answer for someone that makes use of that answer, but it would bother me to know I put that effort in only to have the person not understand any of it.

Other times, questions assume a number of truths about prospective answerers. For example, this question - http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/25527/order-proceed-error-dpd-modulehttps://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/25527/order-proceed-error-dpd-module - The asker is assuming everyone just knows what a "DPD module" is. To the person capable of answering this question, it is only obvious that it is some sort of shipping module that is having trouble connecting with some webservice.

On top of that, the asker is assuming there is some definite answer that will send him on his way when in fact, someone may have to ask a number of diagnostic questions and/or perform their own research to provide an answer. What is the DPD module? What sort of configuration options are provided in the back end? Is this a known bug in an older version of the module? Has the offending webservice recently changed or been deprecated?

One question should not spawn 20 additional questions.

I will admit, it does get tiresome seeing so many questions that require the user to have a certain level of competency in Magento in order for them to comprehend the answer. I don't mind putting in effort to provide a solid answer for someone that makes use of that answer, but it would bother me to know I put that effort in only to have the person not understand any of it.

Other times, questions assume a number of truths about prospective answerers. For example, this question - http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/25527/order-proceed-error-dpd-module - The asker is assuming everyone just knows what a "DPD module" is. To the person capable of answering this question, it is only obvious that it is some sort of shipping module that is having trouble connecting with some webservice.

On top of that, the asker is assuming there is some definite answer that will send him on his way when in fact, someone may have to ask a number of diagnostic questions and/or perform their own research to provide an answer. What is the DPD module? What sort of configuration options are provided in the back end? Is this a known bug in an older version of the module? Has the offending webservice recently changed or been deprecated?

One question should not spawn 20 additional questions.

I will admit, it does get tiresome seeing so many questions that require the user to have a certain level of competency in Magento in order for them to comprehend the answer. I don't mind putting in effort to provide a solid answer for someone that makes use of that answer, but it would bother me to know I put that effort in only to have the person not understand any of it.

Other times, questions assume a number of truths about prospective answerers. For example, this question - https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/25527/order-proceed-error-dpd-module - The asker is assuming everyone just knows what a "DPD module" is. To the person capable of answering this question, it is only obvious that it is some sort of shipping module that is having trouble connecting with some webservice.

On top of that, the asker is assuming there is some definite answer that will send him on his way when in fact, someone may have to ask a number of diagnostic questions and/or perform their own research to provide an answer. What is the DPD module? What sort of configuration options are provided in the back end? Is this a known bug in an older version of the module? Has the offending webservice recently changed or been deprecated?

One question should not spawn 20 additional questions.

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I will admit, it does get tiresome seeing so many questions that require the user to have a certain level of competency in Magento in order for them to comprehend the answer. I don't mind putting in effort to provide a solid answer for someone that makes use of that answer, but it would bother me to know I put that effort in only to have the person not understand any of it.

Other times, questions assume a number of truths about prospective answerers. For example, this question - http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/25527/order-proceed-error-dpd-module - The asker is assuming everyone just knows what a "DPD module" is. To the person capable of answering this question, it is only obvious that it is some sort of shipping module that is having trouble connecting with some webservice.

On top of that, the asker is assuming there is some definite answer that will send him on his way when in fact, someone may have to ask a number of diagnostic questions and/or perform their own research to provide an answer. What is the DPD module? What sort of configuration options are provided in the back end? Is this a known bug in an older version of the module? Has the offending webservice recently changed or been deprecated?

One question should not spawn 20 additional questions.