Adding a template question to the Ask Question box

Question

Every now and then we see some questions of very low quality. The question is 70% venting and/or panic and begging and include no information about the device itself or the Android version.

We have how do I ask a good question but let's face it, most newcomers don't read such stuff, even the tour.

Even though I know it won't one hundred percent prevent such things, I think placing a pre-formatted template shadow question might be useful for new and noob users. We already use this method at the profile parts of our user pages which -in my opinion- needs it much less than the question page.

I'm no psychologist but since people come with the intention of being walked through, I think this can be a way to guide them to ask better formatted questions and thus raise the general quality average of questions.

For example something like this:

Your problem: My phone is stuck on a bootloop after rooting with Kingoroot.

Things you tried so far: I tried to boot into recovery however I failed. 

I don't know what else to do


Your phone and Android version: LG G4 with Android M

Answer 1

I felt like the idea is found appealing. But little to no contribution is made so I decided that I must visualize the idea so we can brainstorm on a more tangible project.

What I suggest is instead of the classic title+body question form format we have right now, a new member will find a different format where the form is divided into different parts. Also, there will be an option to deactivate this suggested new format and activate the classic format instead, however this option will be available only if the user is above a certain reputation (in my opinion 15 reputation would suffice, since that is when a user gets to upvote which means the community trusts this user is able to tell a good post from a bad one.)

You can see an example of this idea here.

I chose this approach based on comments like these:

The What's your Android question? Be specific. guidance in the title field is probably insufficient, I agree. The body field could definitely use one asking for what they've tried and device details. – Matthew Read♦

I agree and it was already a part of my initial idea so I implemented it on the example.

I believe that this would help newcomers know what to put into their question, so that we can help them in a much quicker time frame. But my question is will user take this up or just ignore it? – Matt07211

By forcing this reputation limit we are making sure that they won't be able to deny it.

Can this be only active below a certain rep limit? Say 15 rep? More experienced users shouldn't be affected by this, as it would just waste time for them. – Tamoghna Chowdhury

Agreed and a supported idea.

Should this be active just for people without the Informed badge rather than below a rep figure? Also, put something similar in the answer box - look at the number of "Me too" and "Have you found the answer yet?" posts we get. – Chenmunka

I thought reputation is better because you don't need to actually read the tour to get the informed badge. Just holding down on page down button does the job.