>, with this in mind, to read Jon Skeet’s checklist for writing the perfect question.[...] Sadly, not everybody finds his checklist. Maybe they found it and the

>, with this in mind, to read Jon Skeet’s checklist for writing the perfect question.[...] Sadly, not everybody finds his checklist. Maybe they found it and they don’t care. They’re having an urgent problem with code; they heard that Stack Overflow could help them; and they don’t have time to read some nerd’s complicated protocol for requesting help. As to the Jon Skeet checklist[1] that Spolsky linked, is there any reason why those questions can't be part of the UI when posting a question? The data entry for those fields can even be optional instead of mandatory. The incentive for filling them out is to boost the likelihood of the question getting visibility and getting answered. An analogy is "SEO" Search Engine Optimization and "pagerank". If you want your question to bubble up to the top of the answerers' queue, boost the "effort score" by answering those Jon Skeet questions. Any drawbacks for this? [1] https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2012/11/24/stack-overflow-question-checklist/ https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2012/11/24/stack-overflow-quest...