I would like to suggest a UX improvement
for new users, so they're less likely
to encounter edits / pushback from mods.


## 1. Summarize the problem

Code Review posters are typically new users.
Submissions tend to be titled "How can I improve X?" rather than "Code that does Y."
The site's help guidelines ask for the latter.


## 2. Provide details and any research

Go through the steps of posting a new question.
You will see a modal popup that says

> Asking a good question ...
>
> Please read [link] What topics can I ask about here? and [link] How do I ask a good question?
>
> 1. The code must produce the desired output
> 2. The code must not error or contain known bugs
> 3. The title should describe what the code does
> 4. The more code you provide the more we can help ...

Those are all good,
and this meta question focuses on item 3.
Thing is, when you look at the UX,
it's **modal**, the new user has
dismissed it by the time they're
composing their title.

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Ok, we're still with that new user.
What are they staring at?
It's phrased like this:

> Ask a public question
>
> Title
>
> Be specific and imagine you’re asking a question to another person

There is also helpful advice displayed in
the right-hand gutter.
The advice doesn't mention the Title field,
but I'm not suggesting to change that advice,
I feel it's fine as-is.

As a new user,
thinking up a new Title,
right there in my face
I am being prompted with
"imagine you’re asking a question to another person".

Greyed out there is low-contrast
de-emphasized text encouraging me to

> State the task that your code accomplishes.
> Make your title distinctive.

First sentence is helpful.
It disappears immediately upon
initial keystroke of the title being drafted.

## 3. Feature Request

Please change the persistent
"... imagine you're asking ..." prompt
to read "State the task that your code accomplishes."
It is my belief that this would improve
the quality of submissions and lead to
fewer interventions from the mods.

I suspect there is some SE-wide
aspect to the code which makes
such a feature request "hard" to implement,
but I'll just surface the need anyway,
with fingers crossed.

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Minor feature request:

Consider deleting that second
sentence about "Make your title distinctive."
It's a little helpful, it makes sense to _me_,
since I read the FAQ / help pages.
But it's a reference that asks you
to recall the content of those pages.
A new user maybe read the page,
and _maybe_ remembers its content.
For a new user the 2nd sentence doesn't really
seem to visibly improve submission quality.

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This seems A/B testable.
Call it a "question" if the title mentions
why / how / what or ends with `?` question mark.
Declare victory if a new persistent prompt (B)
yields fewer "question" titles than current (A).