Can we add some way to semi-automatically add a "please DESCRIBE your desired effect" block to _those_ questions?

Question

Questions like

• How do i give this look to my photos?
• How this photograph is taken?
• How to process a photo to get same look?
• What is this effect called and how can I post process my photos to get this effect?
• How is this effect created in Photoshop?
• How to achieve this effect in photoshop?
• Is somebody know this post-processing effect?
• Can someone identify this particular photo effect?

are incredibly frustrating to me, because on the one hand these are exactly¹ the kind of thing I want to see more of on the site: how do I achieve a certain look or follow a certain technique, rather than "what brand photowidgets to buy?", but on the other hand, they are:

• indistinguishable,
• unsearchable,
• and usually, almost completely unclear

awhile ago, I wrote a long rant about this — Important information for asking "What's this effect?" questions — and as you've probably noticed I generally drop a link to it when one of these questions come in (with medium-to-fair results).

But I'm tired of doing that. Is there some way we could have this as a template that can be dropped in place with a click or a flag? Maybe it could be a custom close reason, but it's not a custom off-topic reason — topicality isn't the problem.

(This is mostly a question for Stack Exchange devs, because.... I don't think there's much even the moderators can do here.)

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_{1. well, minus that some of these examples are subjectively crazy over-baked and tasteless, but, hey, no accounting for taste}

Answer 1

We can try to make this situation better by doing one of two things:

1. We can make it so that a block/prompt appears next to the text box for inputting the question, asking the users to be more specific, and possibly even linking to your Meta post.
   This would have to have a trigger, though. This could be a tag (or set of tags), or a set of words. However, we should make sure these triggers are actually something that is usually used by users who will post questions with those kinds of titles, and rarely used by other users who won't do so. Can you think of what those triggers might be?
   The end result would be something similar to what we did in the Anime site.

2. We can add a link to your Meta post in the sidebar next to the text box for inputting the question, under "how to ask". It could look something like this:
   

Answer 2

Although not ideal, it is better than nothing.

You can copy/paste the following into a comment to an offending question that asks, "How do I get this effect/filter/editing?" To copy/paste with the correct formatting, triple-click the line below to select it all and then copy.

I give you my complete permission to use it however you wish.

[Important information for asking “What's this effect?” questions](https://photo.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3881/15871) and [What's the best way to ask a “How do I achieve this effect?” question?](https://photo.meta.stackexchange.com/q/677/15871)

Posted in a comment, the above lines will appear as:

Important information for asking “What's this effect?” questions and What's the best way to ask a “How do I achieve this effect?” question?