I got this response when I tried asking this question:
How do I beat level #8 in Zero Gravity?
The first 7 levels seemed quite trivial, but level 8 has me stumped. How can I beat it?
What does it mean precisely?
2 Answers
Basically, they're not going to tell you, because then it could be circumvented too easily.
More exhaustive reading:
From: What can I do when getting “It does not meet our quality standards”? (On Meta Stack Overflow)
Why am I getting this message?
All new questions are subjected to a "minimum quality" filter that checks for characteristics of extremely poor questions. Your question has been caught by the filter.
What can I do to get the system to accept my question?
Make sure your question has:
- a clear title
- a reasonable explanation of what your question is, sharing your research on the matter
- correct use of English and actual sentences
If your question is so brief that it could be looked up in a dictionary or reference book/site trivially, it might not be a good fit on our network. (source: Jeff)(Requires 10k rep on MSO to view)
Can you be more specific?
Exact details about the algorithm are not being released by the team.
I am against being explicit here.... Our check takes into account tags, title and body. We are not going to give breakdown of what was wrong, that is spoon feeding. (source: waffles)(waffles is an SE dev)
If we provide a "formula" then it's just another way for users to bypass the question quality filters. (source: Jeff)
What are good resources on how to ask high-quality questions?
Fortunately, there are lots! See:
- The "how to ask" page (link is >for Meta SO, but it's basically the same page on every site)
- How to ask a smart question (a faq entry on MSO)
- What’s the best way to ask a question if English isn't your first language?
- Jon Skeet's Writing the perfect question (will take a few minutes to read)
- Eric Raymond's How To Ask Questions The Smart Way, (this gets cited a lot but it's fairly long)
answered Dec 31, 2011 at 21:24
It means that your question doesn't meet automatically-enforced quality standards. What it means precisely, nobody knows, by design. If you reproduced your question here, we could probably guess, but that's it.
The error message's FAQ post on MSO might help you with getting your post through.
#8?combination. I tried asking about an unlockable character named???in Binding of Isaac and got a similar problem. The algorithm probably thought we were abusing the use of symbols in the title.