User blog comment:RansomTime/Questionable Content - the key to getting your questioned answered quickly on Community Central/@comment-24473195-20160718174014

Some of the most important things to get a question answered include:


 * 1) Searching first - before asking any question
 * 2) Providing a good title : People scanning questions often see if they can answer by looking at the titles. Threads with just a "HELP" title are very likely to be ignored.
 * 3) Describing the main (root problem) problem briefly - either before or after a huge block of text
 * 4) Providing specific permalinks   (see ) - a link to the specific wiki page you have issues with.
 * 5) Describing attempts made  - This is important to people don't waste time suggesting that you should try the same thing.

On the technical side, developers should probably look into whitelisting the placeholders for the textareas used to create these "questions". Although there's a good chance that people will just ignore that anyway. One simple but powerful idea would be a adding inputbox for a reference URL in the forums and making this compulsory for new users, this has helped a lot in the portability wikia.