While I doubt the people who ask bad question read the help shown on the side when asking a question:

> How to Ask
> 
> Is your question about managing information technology systems in a
> business environment?
> 
> Review our list of allowed topics. We prefer questions that can be
> answered, not just discussed.
> 
> Provide details. Share your research.
> 
> If your question is about this website, ask it on meta instead.

This help does not actually explains "How to Ask".

I think a little text that explains what "Provide details" means. Or a short "dos and don'ts".

For example http://serverfault.com/questions/662704/changed-the-dns-settigs-a-name-records-a-week-ago-still-resolving-to-old-server

In this post, the person does not provide any data. Sure he wrote some text in his question, but there is no data provided.

I explain:

Data is not a conclusion. In this case, all the person wrote about is the conclusion that *"it still resolves to the old server and not the new server."*

That's not data, but rather a conclusion. He provides some *hints* as to what he might have done: *"I have refreshed the cache, and checked the hosts file for the computer."*

But does it give us data? We don't know what he did to "refreshed the cache" (Firefox cache for all I know since there is not many program that I know of that actually *refreshes* the cache - most *clear* the cache so it can build a new one...).

So I think the "How to Ask" text should at least include a line that reads, in bold:

**Provide details on what you did, exact commands and their results.**