I think it would be really stupid to have such a rule that you should have to put effort into asking for help to write a post.
I think downvoting a post that asks for help to flash out a given case more because the post doesn’t flash out the case enough is rather demotivating to the actual production of the case getting written up.
But since you stated that you had a source already, I don’t see how it’s asking much for you to post a link to the source you already said you had.
[EDIT: After a couple days, I regret the tone of my comments here. I don’t want to discourage anybody from writing posts, or asking for help in composing posts. And I think “there oughta be a rule” was a poor summary of my position and sounded pretty hostile. I think it would be nice if people mentioning the existence of sources would link the sources they mention, and in general I’d like it if people linked source more often. But that wasn’t really directed at you personally, it was spillover from elsewhere.]
I think it would be really stupid to have such a rule that you should have to put effort into asking for help to write a post.
I think downvoting a post that asks for help to flash out a given case more because the post doesn’t flash out the case enough is rather demotivating to the actual production of the case getting written up.
For what it’s worth, I upvoted your comment.
But since you stated that you had a source already, I don’t see how it’s asking much for you to post a link to the source you already said you had.
[EDIT: After a couple days, I regret the tone of my comments here. I don’t want to discourage anybody from writing posts, or asking for help in composing posts. And I think “there oughta be a rule” was a poor summary of my position and sounded pretty hostile. I think it would be nice if people mentioning the existence of sources would link the sources they mention, and in general I’d like it if people linked source more often. But that wasn’t really directed at you personally, it was spillover from elsewhere.]