Posting Good Questions and Answers on Scripting Helpers

Asking questions is the purpose of this website, but not just any question will cut it. For example, asking someone to make you a script for money is not something we'd like to see here. As we've seen some confusion on this in the past, we've developed this guide to help you ask relevant questions.

If you are asking a question, make sure do the following...

• First, before anything else, use the search feature to see if someone has asked your question before! If you don't find it on Scripting Helpers, search the wiki! Search for keywords that relate to your question. If it has been asked before, it may be closed as a duplicate post anyway, so do your research!

• Explain what you've tried so far. Don't come into the picture just asking for someone to do all of the work for you.

• Provide an example of the code you have tried, and explain what you want it to do.

• Do not only post code, or only post an explanation. Both are required to make a good question.

• If your question gets removed or moderated, do not repost it. Instead, look at the reasoning provided at the bottom of the question and try to ask your question again with these guidelines in mind. If what you posted is explicitly disallowed in the rules, or closed as "off-topic" or "spam", then please do not repost it.

• When using tags, make the tags relevant to your actual question. Just because your code may contain a function doesn't mean it's about functions.

If you are answering a question, make sure to provide the following...

• Explain your answer in English. Don't just post code; this doesn't help the poster or the community understand why the code does what it does.

• Give an example of what you are posting about; don't just post an explanation.

• If you post an answer, be prepared to answer follow-up questions that the poster or another member may comment on your post.

• Expect your answer to be edited by members of the community for clarity or to add information. As stated in our Terms of Service, ownership of any content that you post on our website is transferred to us so that members of the community may modify it.

Further explanation of rules:

• Asking someone to make a script for you is not allowed.

  • Scripting Helpers exists for the purpose of sharing scripting concepts and explaining how they work. A question asking someone to just write you a script is not going to help you or anyone else that happens upon the question understand what's actually going on, and it will probably not be very useful to others.

• Providing compensation for answers is not allowed.

  • The goal of Scripting Helpers is to shed light on the world of ROBLOX Lua scripting for everyone. Those who post answers here should be posting to share information with no compensation. The community may give the poster reputation if they feel the answer was helpful, which will allow him to further help the community by gaining more privileges.

This post will also be available in our Help section after this blog post is no longer readily available. We will also keep it up-to-date with any further clarification of the rules.

I hope this helps you have a much more enjoyable time here at Scripting Helpers!