As others have mentioned in other threads we seem to be getting more and more messages that are totally lacking the details necessary to help the person asking the question.

I'm at a loss as to how we can stop this. I'd like the forum to be open so everyone can participate but at the same time these questions with insufficient information are getting very annoying.

I agree with Prahlad's message that we should all agree to just not answer these questions. I don't think we should ask them for more information, we shouldn't try guessing what they're trying to do. We should just ignore them. The problem is there's almost always someone who is going to respond.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking of forcing all users to read the forum rules once and force those with negative karma to read it before every post but I'm thinking this isn't really going to help. We could simply delete such threads but that's subjective and sometimes there are some valuable responses before Steve or I even see the thread. We could have the system automatically close the thread if the first post in a thread gets, say, 3 votes for "Non-Specific/Vague question"--or maybe even automatically delete the thread? But there is a potential for abuse. Or I could modify the system so that such auto-closing/auto-deleting only happens after 2 or 3 votes from "trusted members" that would be manually selected.

I'm open to suggestions. I agree we have a problem but I'm not at all certain how we can solve it.

Regards,
Craig Steiner
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