Why are people asking the same questions over and over again? (Or the Regulars' Chatroom) 🤷

[Stiltjack]

@NathanCu

In solving the problem we would never:
Provide working finished code (forces the end user to interact to make it work)
Provide an opinion on on a technique not backed by a probable point (provide reference)

Could you add these two to "How to help us to help them?

How to help us help them - or How to give a good answer

Before we begin… This forum is not a soapbox You don’t work for Home Assistant, that’s an open source project. You are volunteering your free time to help others. You don’t have to respond to their rants… Read the question All the way through. Quite often the act of writing the post clarifies things in the poster’s mind, so that they only get to the real point in the last couple of lines. There may actually be several questions. They may have got hold of the wrong end of the stick entir…