Deny suggestions which do not include problems/issues

[nympholept]

Title
Deny suggestions which do not include problems/issues

Short, concise description of the idea
Change the rules of suggestions so that suggestions omitting problems/issues are rejected from the moderation queue.
Except in cases of correcting spelling or rewording page text, where it would not be required.

Full description of the ideaAs it says on the

Comments

[ex_uniquewo]

Having personally submitted several suggestions where playing devil's advocate did not help me find any possible issues - and nobody suggested any in comments, I'm against this.
Contrary to what you seem to think not all people skip this section because "they don't want to spend 2 minutes considering the possible problems".

Also, I would like to think people commenting here are able to look past spelling mistakes, awkward or unclear phrasing and omission of one or two negative consequences, and appreciate the idea and its suggested implementation instead.

+1

[polyfrog]

I have seen plenty of suggestions on the order of "fix this spelling/wording in this way to make it clearer/correct." There are plenty of those with no downside whatsoever.

[nympholept]

It was not my intent to encourage enforcing this rule on petty suggestions of that nature.
I've edited the suggestion for you.

[nympholept]

Contrary to what you seem to think not all people skip this section because "they don't want to spend 2 minutes considering the possible problems".

Are you suggesting instead that people are not intelligent enough to come up with obvious problems within 2 minutes?

[nympholept]

Except that I've never seen anyone bother to edit any suggested problems into their entry - but that's a different matter entirely.

[azurelunatic]

I have, but it's the exception rather than the norm.

[nympholept]

Perhaps there should be a guideline that submitters should edit in other people's offered pros and cons where possible?

I know it's a whole other suggestions worth of issues, but it would save time reading comments if the main issues brought up later were summarised. Although it would lengthen each post, which may be a bad thing.

And it puts a burden on people to maintain their entry, which is more of a commitment that people probably want to make.

[cos]

I disagree. When someone making a suggestion can think of drawbacks it would be useful to bring to people's attention, sure, they should put them in. Sometimes there aren't any real drawbacks, and other times the person making the suggestion doesn't realize what they'd be, and commenters think of them later. Forcing the issue would just cause people to put "I can't think of anything" or similar text in the box, and would be needlessly annoying.

[azurelunatic]

Text in the box is already required, so that's already happening.

[pauamma]

I don't think suggestions should be rejected just because the poster genuinely doesn't see any downside, after thinking about it. 'sides, it's not at all unlikely that they thought of what I see as a big, fat, honkin' downside, and see it as completely irrelevant or minor (and thus, didn't list it), or as a plus rather than a minus...

-1

[danceinacircle]

I can't think of a single reason to require this. Suggestions aren't implemented without consideration, and I'd rather encourage people to submit half-cooked ideas that can really be fleshed out in comments than have people not submit at all just because they don't know enough to think of problems.