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Comments on Questions with a quote/screenshot and a request to explain

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Questions with a quote/screenshot and a request to explain

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There are quite many questions that consist of a screenshot-quote, possibly several, usually with an underlined part and a request to explain it.

These questions read to me as lacking effort and context. In my opinion, they would be much improved by expressing the issue in the querent's own words. This would also have the querent processing the issue themselves and maybe even solving the issue, or at least maybe getting a better handle on the subject matter.

Is it recommended to downvote these questions due to this issue? Is there something else we should do about them, or should we just let them be?

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My approach is downvote and, if it's a first infraction, comment explaining the issue with the question.

Repeat offenders get downvotes and, perhaps if this one-guy's-opinion calcifies into actual community policy, flags. I'd like us to start doing a better job of holding the line against low-effort questions, using mod tools as needed.

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deleted user wrote over 2 years ago

I am not disagreeing with the idea. If you can read the image clearly than, instead of downvoting you should respectfully tell the user to use MathJax or Latex instead of image. But, if you use image and MathJax in same post than It's ok. But, i highly recommend to use details summary HTML tag for posting images. Cause, images make the question bigger and reader hate that kind of post. When a newuser post image respectfully teach them how to use MathJax. I would request someone to create a

deleted user wrote over 2 years ago

question on MathJax in Math Meta