Even in the case where the explanation of the question is quite long, I think the onus is still on the asker to give information for the reciever to prioritise it. Because sometimes my availability for the discussion depends on how important that is versus my current task.
Need help debugging your CI build while I'm just churning out unit tests for my run of the mill work? Sure, I'll take up that discussion.
But hey, what if I'm working on a gethering data for a presentation to stakeholders tomorrow? Then your CI build has to wait.
But wait, what if you're debugging production being down? Well then you know what, my feature can wait.
So "I need help with <X> so that I can <Y>, are you around for a chat?" is ok. I can make a judgement call here and give you an answer.
"Ping"/"yt"/"Can we talk?" is not. You give me no information to prioritise your request.
Okay, that's a good point, a "ping" with sufficient context about the priority is a clear improvement.
I saw the original article's recommendation to add "no urgency" when appropriate, but the type of requests I was thinking about are those that actually are urgent but not that important, where it's no big deal if you can't answer right now, but then we'll proceed without your input at all instead of waiting for it.
Need help debugging your CI build while I'm just churning out unit tests for my run of the mill work? Sure, I'll take up that discussion.
But hey, what if I'm working on a gethering data for a presentation to stakeholders tomorrow? Then your CI build has to wait.
But wait, what if you're debugging production being down? Well then you know what, my feature can wait.
So "I need help with <X> so that I can <Y>, are you around for a chat?" is ok. I can make a judgement call here and give you an answer.
"Ping"/"yt"/"Can we talk?" is not. You give me no information to prioritise your request.