I think there's a strong selection bias that makes newbie questions generally sub-par. If you know enough to do research and make MCVEs, you'll likely rubber d

I think there's a strong selection bias that makes newbie questions generally sub-par. If you know enough to do research and make MCVEs, you'll likely rubber duck your way into a solution instead of posting a clear and well formulated question. This is why you get a pile of "Unable to checksum downloaded file" type questions with a 30 line code dump and vague "doesn't work" comment: All the users who instead narrowed it down to their `if (sum="foo")` or `if [[ $sum=="foo" ]]` or whatever pitfall their language has will already have googled "how do I compare two strings" and discarded their draft. I don't have a good solution, but I'm happy about the article's "new “beginner” ask page that breaks the question box into multiple fields". It'll help ensure all questions have actual/expected results, and the code section will hopefully clear a path for applying static analysis.