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*.
Increasing the font size of the title to reflect its importance seems like a good idea. The sentences as field labels seem awkward though. Perhaps "Title" could just be changed to "Summary" to better reflect the purpose of the field without making it too verbose? 
"Provide details like context, intent, and examples" also makes an awkward field label. They're good instructions, but I don't think that's the place for them.

Instead, what about another block in the sidebar below "How to Ask" that provides these bullet points. It would also be good to mention describing what result was *expected* and what actually occurred. This block could flash (like answers do when you first post them) when the question body textarea loses focus or the mouse is hovered over the "Post" button.
These bullet points could be linked to parts of the faq, rather than linking from the field labels. The standard behaviour when clicking on field labels is to focus the entry field, if it does anything at all. It might also make sense to rename the existing "How to Ask" box to "What to ask", and label this new box "How to ask".

The "asking help" link already points to the "How to Ask" page. Maybe it could be renamed to something like "asking good questions"? Or at least something that indicates that it's about writing good questions rather than technical help about the process of posting questions.

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> Ask the user for the right content: An actual question instead of topics or a title.
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I don't think there's any inherent benefit in titles phrased as complete sentences or as questions. [This was thoroughly debated recently](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99185/would-the-stack-exchange-network-be-better-if-titles-contained-complete-grammati/99197#99197), but the gist of it is that we want detailed titles, but complete sentences don't get us any closer to that goal. It's kind of an [XY problem](http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341).