It is so frustrating to have so many first posts that miss a MWE or simply show lack of understanding of the style of a Q&A site (vs a forum).To avoid the tedious comments and big duplication of effort, there could be a short mandatory tutorial + test to be taken before the first question can be asked.The tutorial could cover just the basics:
- how to mark text as code
- what is a MWE
- how to check if the question has already been asked and what to do in that case
- what is a question, an answer and a comment
Then the test could be a multiple choice between good and bad examples of questions/answers/comments.
It may be annoying to go through it but I think it would only discourage the very bad questions, not well-intentioned new users.
What do you think?