I noticed that it became common to see newcomer posts with negative votes, and no comments to explain it.

Sometimes i even wonder why some good questions get downvoted without reason.

Is there a way to add something like :

• first downvote for a newcomer post requier a comment.

• Adding for a new user post an automatic feedback on a downvote pointing to the help to explain which mistake has been made in the post (maybe a with a popin message option, to be even more accurate)

thanks for reading.

Some example:

• How to prevent gitlab autostart on boot
• http://serverfault.com/questions/738572/combine-multiple-sshfs-to-form-one-large-file-system
• Ubuntu + Postfix: Mail Log Missing

Goal

• Get the user informed on what he did wrong
• Make the user auto correct his post easily
• Prevent attacks against the first commentator about the down vote
• Prevent ghost post (post who will never be changed or checked back by the new user)

Another Approach:

It seems like the main trouble is on the reading of the forums rules.

So what about:

• If the time between the rules are displayed and user validation is lower than 15 sec, pop a message to warn the user about it ? (and restart the cool down to prevent click right after the warn)