More and more questions don't provide any details. Is anyone going to address this?

I notice that with the advent of the new forum software apparently asking a question has been made easier.
This results in almost 99 percent of all posters not consulting documentation and not providing any details (IE no four digit Oracle version and no platform info).
Also there are people who clearly are asking you to do their documentation searches.
I was wondering whether anything can be done about addressing this.
I'm not holding my breath, but I wonder why people here continue to spoon feed 'DBAs'  who are clearly too lazy to do anything (except using these forums as a chat room) to resolve their issues.
Regards,
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

Yes, the "Announcements" are badly shown and don't stand out, meaning the SQL and PL/SQL FAQ is only visible by chance as the announcements switch automatically every 30 seconds (or whatever the timing is).
I was considering asking Sonya if it was ok for me to remove the other announcement as it doesn't really add any value, and that would just leave the FAQ announcement as the only one, so making it a little more visible.
Maybe if Sonya sees this thread/discussion she can give us her opinion on that.
URL to the SQL and PL/SQL forum so Sonya can see what we're on about... PL/SQL
As to sybrand's question... I really don't know what we can do about it apart from just pointing people to the FAQ if they don't ask properly.
I guess it would help if the editor was fixed so it was easier to post code nicely, but that still won't make people post all the details.

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