... and other observations.
We, as a community, are asked to be nicer so how about the SE Employees help us become nicer by providing a question wizard for new users on the SE network???
No, not asking for a tag-based question wizard but a generic one across all sites in the SE network with just three simple questions being asked of a beginning OP:
- What is a summary of your problem?
(limited to the original tweet limit of 140 characters,NOT NULL
) - Please describe your problem in detail.
(Size > first screen,NOT NULL
) - What have you done to solve it already?
(can beNULL
after confirmation)
with one screen per question and a Skip button that fast-forwards you straight to the end which shows the OP the current question screen.
The 3 strings from these 3 screens can then be concatenated with a <br>
in the middle thus becoming one question as we're used to see them today.
So no database update necessary, just a UI adaptation for the first n-m questions a user asks limited to a user's experience threshold (a 10K rep user who's answered 100 questions already should not be forced to go through this, regardless of the existence of a "Skip" button...).
This would allow us to better enforce the "How to ask" rules on this site as in-between each screen we can respectively enforce:
- Have you thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question?
- Be on-topic, be specific
- Make it relevant to others, keep an open mind
Added bonus: do the same for answers from N00bs users unfamiliar with all the rules...
;-)
P.S. Yes, I'm old enough to remember that the creator of the first Compact IBM PC Clone used to have a Knowledge Base article that actually explained what the Any Key was...
P.P.S. Yes I once was young and foolish and I thought that I knew everything but now that I'm an old fart, I know that I know nothing...
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