don't get me wrong, but if you had said that in the first place you may have got more useful help. i see a lot of questions on here posted by people who think what they're doing is so secret, even they don't know what they're doing.... really.... even if the question is related to a patentable idea, remember that most patents contain a phrase similar to "obvious to anyone skilled in the art" which is a sort of disclaimer that means "anybody with the right knowledge could come up with this or something like it on their own". one other possibility requiring secrecy would be if you were working on a top secret government project, and if that were the case, your non-disclosure agreement would probably frown on you asking your question on an open public forum like this one, even if you posted no details about it. a lot of information could be gleaned just from the nature of the question, and while by itself is innocuous, could reveal secret details when coupled with other snippets of information.
one reason it's a good idea to give some detail when asking a question, is that often, the answer to the question requires some context. take, for example the question "i'd like to make an oscillator, can anybody help me?"...... oscillators are a huge open-ended subject. what is the intended use of the oscillator? what kind of waveform? what frequency range?..... there could be many details that would help you get an answer quicker, rather than leaving everybody guessing or having to prod you for details one-by-one....
rephrasing the question like "i'd like to make an RF oscillator tunable from 10Mhz-20Mhz for a direct conversion receiver" might get you a lot more useful answers, rather than playing "20 questions" for several days just to find out what it would have taken 3 seconds to type.