One thing which comes to my mind is encouraging people to actually edit others' questions. To be honest I personally needed a bit of encouragement (or a kick in the butt if you prefer to call it so) Jeff shared here: meta.pm.stackexchange.com/questions/133/…

We may update FAQ as proposed in the comment under Jeff's answer so people who don't follow meta are also aware that it is welcome to improve questions whenever they don't suit guidelines well.

And there's another thing I was thinking about recently - moderators started closing questions which don't suit guidelines well without waiting for 5 close votes. On one hand that's what we have moderators for and I believe still few people would vote to close such question, on the other maybe we should start with either editing question or asking original poster to do so.

For a couple of recent questions it became a standard procedure: original question, close, edits, vote to open, open. Maybe we could skip close and open parts :)

@pawelbrodzinski - I agree 100% on the close vote issue. I reopened one that another mod closed, and then I reopened one that I closed. Ideally, questions should be closed that have zero value. I think I acted in haste on the one I closed as it's clearly a much better question now.

However, I'm with you, at the same time I'm glad this happened because I think it did give us all that extra motivation we needed to understand that we should improve questions :)

As long as we continue to do a good job to quickly address and clean up questions that don't meet the 6 subjective guidelines, then I'm more than happy to just proceed with a comment.

I think quite a few of us have learned something on recent questions, which is definitely good and for this sole reason it's good we've had that discussion.