<p>It seems to me that the problem is more fundamental to the way stackexchange works. </p>

<p>Many questions are poorly written, with very poorly written titles. I get the impression that few people bother to edit questions. And once answers appear (often within a few minutes), it would be hard to substantially edit the question without making some answers look stupid. </p>

<p>The solution, I think, would be for new questions (or maybe only new questions by people without a lot of points), be only available for editing the question and title, and for commenting. Of course, at this stage the question could be closed, as it is now. Don't allow answers yet. Once the question and its title are approved by some kind of vote (like we do now for closing questions), then all the comments up to then get archived (because presumably they were used to edit the question, so now are irrelevant), and the question is available to answer. With this change, there would be no more partial answers to ambiguous questions. And no more posted comments that refer to a version of the question that has been substantially edited. First, let the community clarify/approve the question, and only then allow answers. </p>

<p>Given the speed this community works (look at the process for closing questions), my guess is that most questions would be edited and approved (or closed) within a few hours. </p>

<p>But of course this is not something that can be done on only one site of the many on stack exchange. </p>
