There has been a lot of focus on answers on Lifehacks meta, with many discussions related to multiple solutions in an answer, are conventional solutions approved/disapproved, how to avoid polls, and how to answer a question which doesn't neccessarily require a lifehack, and so on.

I seem to find a general concept, that if only the question was better, it would be easier to provide a good answer. And this leads be to my question on _How to improve the question quality?_

My concern especially applies to all the questions which are borderline howto-questions, and might show little (or no effort) in searching for solutions, or might not require lifehacks at all.

Are these options from an answer to ["Why is the quality of questions and answers not great right now?"](https://lifehacks.meta.stackexchange.com/a/111/4490) the best we can do:

 * Comment on low quality questions; don't answer them
 * Down vote when appropriate
 * Close questions that aren't fixed quickly or that seem unsalvageable.

Will newcomers/one-time askers understand this, and help us raise the quality on questions? Are these the best options to enforce the [scope of Lifehacks](https://lifehacks.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1217/the-scope-of-lifehacks)? Do we have other alternatives?