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I concur. Main issue I have faced is people down voting questions even when the question is perfectly valid and reasonably well explained(imo). It sometimes looks to me that when a question is about 'under the cover' stuff and not superficial 'how do i get this done/i did this but got this output', it would be down voted.

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I had this happen when I was obtaining my degree a couple of years ago. I forget the issue exactly, but I had this homework problem that I was able to solve using Python docs but what was happening underneath wasn't really "clicking" in my brain. So I posted the problem I solved, my solution, along with my actual question about the underlying issue. I got a lot of "did you check the documentation?" and "is this for HW?"...sadly my question was closed and I never got an answer.

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