# How to post follow up questions?

If I have a question that depends on a previous question that's already resolved, how do I post that follow up Question?

1. Edit my original question
2. Post a new one
• If it's already resolved, radical changes to the original question would waste all of the effort of the people who wrote back to you. So don't do that. In other words, "Do not move the goalposts when it is cheap and easy to make new goalposts." Then again, do not run wild with too may goalposts: make sure your questions are carefully written :) – rschwieb Aug 12 '14 at 14:06
• Small suggestion: a single question mark suffices as an indication that a sentence is a question. – user147263 Aug 12 '14 at 14:34
• @900sit-upsaday Ya I will try not to do that again. – Sudhanshu Aug 12 '14 at 14:39
• Very similar question just came up at MO: meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/1845/… – Gerry Myerson Aug 12 '14 at 23:42

The key points here, thought, are that the case should be trivial and the answer should be trite. For example, The OP of this question omitted a non-trivial case, and the answer was simple but pleasing (it was not trite$^{\dagger}$). So the OP started a new question rather than editing the original.
$^{\dagger}$ Trite (adj.): (of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse.