# How to ask a good question / Help Us Help You

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-ask-a-good-question-help-us-help-you/58396>\
**Category:** Tutorials & Examples\
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-ask-a-good-question-help-us-help-you/58396 "2018-11-30T21:39:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![rlkoshak](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/rlkoshak/32/75251_2.png) [@rlkoshak](https://community.openhab.org/u/rlkoshak)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-ask-a-good-question-help-us-help-you/58396/84 "2019-05-03T16:18:18Z")

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It looks like the HA folks have adopted this tutorial for posting a good question too. 😉 Don’t worry, they credited this post.

> **[How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-help-us-help-you-or-how-to-ask-a-good-question/114371)**
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> Before we begin… This forum is not a helpdesk The people here don’t work for Home Assistant, that’s an open source project. We are volunteering our free time to help others. Not all topics may get an answer, never mind one that helps you solve...

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