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_{In the fashion of the discussion on meta.SO about unanswered questions on Stack Overflow}

But this workflow is horribly broken and more often than not, that's exactly what is not happening. Questions lie around on the site for months together without enough information to answer them. And OP will not be active either. Maybe we should start to put them "on hold" first and then reopen them when they have enough details. This workflow should work better since the system now automatically adds recently closed and edited questions in the reopen queue.

3. Downvoting incomplete questions so they fall to the bottom

   This probably would help on multiple folds.

   • Bad questions will be eventually auto-deleted from database
   • Good questions would be better sorted from junks making it easier for answerers to focus on them
   • Improves the overall quality of content on the site

_{In the fashion of the discussion on meta.SO about unanswered questions on Stack Overflow}

But this workflow is horribly broken and more often than not, that's exactly what is not happening. Questions lie around on the site for months together without enough information to answer them. And OP will not be active either. Maybe we should start to put them "on hold" first and then reopen them when they have enough details. This workflow should work better since the system now automatically adds recently closed and edited questions in the reopen queue.

3. Downvoting incomplete questions so they fall to the bottom

   This probably would help on multiple folds.

   • Bad questions will be eventually auto-deleted from database
   • Good questions would be better sorted from junks making it easier for answerers to focus on them
   • Improves the overall quality of content on the site

• People may ignore policy. But that's not an argument for never enforcing one. Skeptics.SE expects a remarkably high standard (in comparison with the rest of Stack Exchange network sites) from their users and the general quality of the posts over there would tell you the fruits of enforcing such a quality policy.

• Forced registration is not a new concept, not to Stack Exchange. Stack Overflow has it for a long time and Programmers.SE has required registration for quite some time now. And no single solution will overnight solve the problem of people asking bad questions and requiring registration will help prevent people easily losing access to their accounts and questions. This will be beneficial especially with mods no longer being able to merge user accounts at our discretion.

• Now I am not sure why we are so averse to any form of cleaning. Downvoting is a form of cleaning (actually, I would call it sorting) and that's pretty much the reason why it's even there. And downvoting will help highlight good content. It may take some time from the reviewers (realistically speaking, voting costs you may be 10 seconds but the benefits are far reaching) but it will definitely help signal to the general audience that a post is not great.

• People may ignore policy. But that's not an argument for never enforcing one. Skeptics.SE expects a remarkably high standard (in comparison with the rest of Stack Exchange network sites) from their users and the general quality of the posts over there would tell you the fruits of enforcing such a quality policy.

• Forced registration is not a new concept, not to Stack Exchange. Stack Overflow has it for a long time and Programmers.SE has required registration for quite some time now. And no single solution will overnight solve the problem of people asking bad questions and requiring registration will help prevent people easily losing access to their accounts and questions. This will be beneficial especially with mods no longer being able to merge user accounts at our discretion.

• Now I am not sure why we are so averse to any form of cleaning. Downvoting is a form of cleaning (actually, I would call it sorting) and that's pretty much the reason why it's even there. And downvoting will help highlight good content. It may take some time from the reviewers (realistically speaking, voting costs you may be 10 seconds but the benefits are far reaching) but it will definitely help signal to the general audience that a post is not great.

• People may ignore policy. But that's not an argument for never enforcing one. Skeptics.SE expects a remarkably high standard (in comparison with the rest of Stack Exchange network sites) from their users and the general quality of the posts over there would tell you the fruits of enforcing such a quality policy.

• Forced registration is not a new concept, not to Stack Exchange. Stack Overflow has it for a long time and Programmers.SE has required registration for quite some time now. And no single solution will overnight solve the problem of people asking bad questions and requiring registration will help prevent people easily losing access to their accounts and questions. This will be beneficial especially with mods no longer being able to merge user accounts at our discretion.

• Now I am not sure why we are so averse to any form of cleaning. Downvoting is a form of cleaning (actually, I would call it sorting) and that's pretty much the reason why it's even there. And downvoting will help highlight good content. It may take some time from the reviewers (realistically speaking, voting costs you may be 10 seconds but the benefits are far reaching) but it will definitely help signal to the general audience that a post is not great.

• People may ignore policy. But that's not an argument for never enforcing one. Skeptics.SE expects a remarkably high standard (in comparison with the rest of Stack Exchange network sites) from their users and the general quality of the posts over there would tell you the fruits of enforcing such a quality policy.

• Forced registration is not a new concept, not to Stack Exchange. Stack Overflow has it for a long time and Programmers.SE has required registration for quite some time now. And no single solution will overnight solve the problem of people asking bad questions and requiring registration will help prevent people easily losing access to their accounts and questions. This will be beneficial especially with mods no longer being able to merge user accounts at our discretion.

• Now I am not sure why we are so averse to any form of cleaning. Downvoting is a form of cleaning (actually, I would call it sorting) and that's pretty much the reason why it's even there. And downvoting will help highlight good content. It may take some time from the reviewers (realistically speaking, voting costs you may be 10 seconds but the benefits are far reaching) but it will definitely help signal to the general audience that a post is not great.