We still have some problemscontentiousness around putting answers on hold.
We get many new users who ask multiple questions in one question, or are unclear, or don't say what game they're talking about.
In general the community's doing a great job of putting these on hold, getting clarification, and reopening once they're good.
Where I see this going off the rails, though, is there are people - who are motivated by wanting to help the user - that do a couple things.
- They answer too fast when the question is obviously going to be closed
- They object about questions being put on hold
- They edit the question dramatically without input from the OP to try to get them on topic
This would be fine, kinda, but then it leads to conflict with the other people trying to work the questions according to site policy, and then people get heated and start to violate Be Nice. Over the last year we've had to issue a couple warnings and suspensions when discussion over a closed question went from 0 to inappropriate between site users in a short amount of time, and we hate having to do that.
From what I see, all the questions that should be open have gotten reopened after their workshopping - the only ones that remain closed are the ones that are off topic or the OP never came back to.
I think the solution here is "trust the process" - getting put on hold and clarified, IMO, isn't what is driving off users. Fights amongst the locals on their first question, that drives off users. If a question is unclear, let it close, work with the OP to engage them and get it worked up and then reopen it.