In light of the recent Stack Overflow post on being more welcoming to newcomers, I believe it is worthwhile for us to explore what we can do to help new visitors ease into the site.
While I do not believe we should relax standards for what is considered an acceptable question, nor should we answer repeat questions "just to be nice."
However, it does seem appropriate that we do a better job explaining why we have issues with questions that are posted in a way that helps users try to improve their question if possible, or be a clear explanation of what's wrong.
Are there any other suggestions for how we can implement this initiative here on Academia.SE?