What you wrote comes across to me as a false dichotomy.
There’s not just _perfectly crafted_ and _zero-effort,_ there are infinitely many nuances between those extremes.
No one expects perfection, or formally rigorous problem descriptions. People do expect a _reasonable_ amount of effort, no less but also not much more.
Reducing effort to near zero out of spite (or whatever your motivation is) doesn’t feel constructive. Why not make an honest, good-faith attempt insteas to help others help you?
Something like:
“I’m trying to do X. Here’s my attempt but it doesn’t work. I’d expect my code to run successfully but it prints ERROR instead. What does the message mean and how do I fix it?”
goes a long way already.
Bonus points if you minimize your example and make it self-contained.
(Note that I didn’t say “spend an afternoon polishing your example.” Just spend a couple of minutes deleting lines of code until you feel it’s small enough to be useful.)
Reducing effort to near zero out of spite (or whatever your motivation is) doesn’t feel constructive. Why not make an honest, good-faith attempt insteas to help others help you?
Something like:
“I’m trying to do X. Here’s my attempt but it doesn’t work. I’d expect my code to run successfully but it prints ERROR instead. What does the message mean and how do I fix it?”
goes a long way already.
Bonus points if you minimize your example and make it self-contained. (Note that I didn’t say “spend an afternoon polishing your example.” Just spend a couple of minutes deleting lines of code until you feel it’s small enough to be useful.)