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  • Not a real question

It is a real and valid question, but just one or more vital piece(s) of information isn't provided, such as a specific hardware specification.

The definition for NARQ is:

It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, see the FAQ.

Usually if I run into a question and someone's left a comment but it's been abandoned then this is what I usually go for.

It is quite unsatisfactory for those who have put time and effort in the question in researching and commenting, but it's even more to see the question closed with a reason not making any sense (in my opinion).

Don't invest time and effort on incomplete questions; we can't force people to fix their questions, they've asked it, we've asked for clarification, if they bail then there's not much we can do, other than voting-to-close to prevent the next contributor from wasting their time on an unanswerable question.

I use the proforma commentsproforma comments to make it real easy to read a question, add the comment, and move onto the next one.

  • Not a real question

It is a real and valid question, but just one or more vital piece(s) of information isn't provided, such as a specific hardware specification.

The definition for NARQ is:

It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, see the FAQ.

Usually if I run into a question and someone's left a comment but it's been abandoned then this is what I usually go for.

It is quite unsatisfactory for those who have put time and effort in the question in researching and commenting, but it's even more to see the question closed with a reason not making any sense (in my opinion).

Don't invest time and effort on incomplete questions; we can't force people to fix their questions, they've asked it, we've asked for clarification, if they bail then there's not much we can do, other than voting-to-close to prevent the next contributor from wasting their time on an unanswerable question.

I use the proforma comments to make it real easy to read a question, add the comment, and move onto the next one.

  • Not a real question

It is a real and valid question, but just one or more vital piece(s) of information isn't provided, such as a specific hardware specification.

The definition for NARQ is:

It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, see the FAQ.

Usually if I run into a question and someone's left a comment but it's been abandoned then this is what I usually go for.

It is quite unsatisfactory for those who have put time and effort in the question in researching and commenting, but it's even more to see the question closed with a reason not making any sense (in my opinion).

Don't invest time and effort on incomplete questions; we can't force people to fix their questions, they've asked it, we've asked for clarification, if they bail then there's not much we can do, other than voting-to-close to prevent the next contributor from wasting their time on an unanswerable question.

I use the proforma comments to make it real easy to read a question, add the comment, and move onto the next one.

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  • Not a real question

It is a real and valid question, but just one or more vital piece(s) of information isn't provided, such as a specific hardware specification.

The definition for NARQ is:

It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, see the FAQ.

Usually if I run into a question and someone's left a comment but it's been abandoned then this is what I usually go for.

It is quite unsatisfactory for those who have put time and effort in the question in researching and commenting, but it's even more to see the question closed with a reason not making any sense (in my opinion).

Don't invest time and effort on incomplete questions; we can't force people to fix their questions, they've asked it, we've asked for clarification, if they bail then there's not much we can do, other than voting-to-close to prevent the next contributor from wasting their time on an unanswerable question.

I use the proforma comments to make it real easy to read a question, add the comment, and move onto the next one.