The "Ask a Question" page currently has the following notice on the right side near the question box:
How to Ask
Is your question about Android?
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Being that there's a seemingly nontrivial number of development questions asked here which are summarily migrated, I think it would be helpful to have another heading in the dialog. My thought is that it would go below the current one, but above the read the faq >>
link, and would say something like the following:
Is your question about developing Android apps?
If so, please ask it on Stackoverflow, and add the android tag.
I don't know if this would help, but it would make the off-topic nature of dev questions a bit more visible. Currently we rely on the fact that people will read the FAQ, which (from what I've seen), new users often don't do. Other than the FAQ, there's no real indication that AE is for users rather than development. "Enthusiasts and power users" is how the site is described in the banner, but I see both of them as being a little fuzzy.
Thoughts? Comments? Witty sayings?
Edit: Any other feedback on this? I still think this is a good idea (shameless bump in a way, but I guess you can't set bounties on child Meta sites). I know this won't solve the problem completely but the extra exposure seems like it couldn't hurt.