Updating How do I post a question effectively? definitely wouldn't be a bad thing, and these suggestions will teach good coding/testing practices as well as they do question asking.

It wouldn't necessarily be a good thing either :D

lots of questioners can't even manage to use code tags, or do what How do I post a question effectively? or How (Not) To Ask A Question suggest

Expansion isn't likely to increase its effectiveness or usefulness, more than anything more people will ignore it, if that is even possible

I believe question templates are a better idea, but even they were rejected, and likely wouldn't do anything to improve questions either

RFC - new shortform for newquestions with anysection dropdown/selection/option / Re: Standard way for displaying a script's output.( new question template)

In reply to Re^2: How to ask better questions using Test::More and sample data by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to ask better questions using Test::More and sample data by neilwatson

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