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Should minimal research be required before posting?
According to the help center, to ask a "great question," you should "Do some research...In addition to just making sure your question hasn't been asked already here on Codidact, take a few moments to search beyond the site. If you put your question title into a search engine, can you find the answer to your question in the first three results?"
Currently this is left as a guideline, a recommendation. Should this be adopted as site policy, that if a simple Google search for your question yields answers, don't ask it here, or should it be left as a guideline?
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Should this be adopted as site policy…?
I'm not sure. But even if it is, we should clarify that the required degree of research is user-dependent. As a wise woman once said:
I want to see some [research] effort but it should be calibrated to the user. Somebody who doesn't know much about Judaism might have tried to Google and failed; just tell us that and that's fine. If somebody named "Rabbi Ploni" asks something that's clearly answered in the Rashi on that very verse or is apparently unambiguous in Shulchan Aruch, and he doesn't explain why what those say doesn't answer his question, I think he needed to do a little more work. But I wouldn't expect the gentile visitor to know that Rashi, let alone that SA
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