Question: **I would love to see more useful questions** and don't think the [new About page](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/01/about-page-2-0-the-quickstartening/) will help; so, I have worked out a more effective "Ask Question" page that solves lots of problems more effective:

* Ask the user for the right content:

	+ An actual question instead of topics or a title. In a Q&A system we are answering a question that is based on an actual practical problem, we are not discussing around a topic.
	+ Actual context and details of a problem, as well as examples. This makes the user remind that we need to know the context and the fine details of a problem; too often, we need to ask these kind of simple questions in the comments where the user has not provided context nor details, he could have just done that in the first place.
* An increased size of the question title, to remind the user that it pops out in reality.

	+ This would show an example question in (light) grey, so that the user gets the idea.
	+ The question itself is the most important on Ask Question, the whole Q&A is based on it.
* Part of the heading texts could link back to the How to Ask page.
* The How to Ask link is partially forgotten days/weeks after it has been read, we can remind them.
* I would suggest to link "Describe the contexts and details" to the "Do your homework" part of the How to Ask page as well as to link "your problem" to the FAQ, which explains that it should be about an actual, practical problem and which helps guide the user further. There is no incentive that the user should check out the FAQ, so providing a link doesn't hurt.

*Have you ever tried to fill in a survey where each box is accompanied with **at most** a single word? That’s not constructive.*

[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CAaX0.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CAaX0.png)

Not seen above is that the question box would show an example of an actual title in grey.

Answer: 
My issue with the suggestions here is that they **add more words to the page**.

If the user is so dense that can't understand what "title:" means, I'm not convinced that changing it to "summarize your problem as a question:" is going to help ... anyone.

Also, there is already help present in the fields:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5k6PJ.png)

So piling even more text on the page is simply not the right way to reach *users who don't read anything*.
While I agree with Tim and others that a lot of users are plain apathetic, I think it can't hurt to improve the wording on things anyway.

Stack Exchange is not always new-user friendly and in my experience communities aren't very forgiving to questions that aren't phrased "just so". That can be intimidating. Especially as we move away from the technical programmer crowd and attract more users from other fields, it really can't hurt to be a little more clear on what likely is the first form a new user comes across.

I'm not fully in agreement with the wording changes proposed here. For one, I think it's fine to keep "title" instead of going for some variation of "concise description". But I support adding some guidance around tags, the preview pane, and possibly the question body itself.

Tl;dr: there's no harm in making wording better. It's a small change and it won't stop *every* bad question, but that's okay. Sure, this is the Internet and so on, but aren't we trying to make the Internet better?