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PSA: Why is it important to provide apparently irrelevant details in a question?

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PSA: Why is it important to provide apparently irrelevant details in a question?

Recently, a user got upset because some of us asked for clarification on a question. New questions with insufficient detail come in all of the time, in fact. In this case, someone guessed at an answer, and apparently got it right, and the original questioner felt this validated the original lack of detail, and got upset at requests for more information.

That should be it, right? The site is supposed to be here to help people. Why are we being so annoying?