Should you report questions that are too vague to be answered?

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I primarily answer questions in the "Computers & Internet" category. About 100+ times per day, I will see questions like this one:

How to change current password? (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20141216044800AASOTwD)

This question, even though it is a question, simply can't be answered without additional details supplied by the asker. And as an answerer, it's against the rules to ask questions in your answer ("The password to what?"). In essence, these questions simply can't be answered. I have looked at the Community Guidelines (https://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines) and the only part I can see this fitting into would be Misusing Answers, specifically the part about being incomprehensible. But I don't know if I would classify this question as incomprehensible since you can clearly understand what the asker is asking--the question simply needs more context in order to be answered.

I don't want to start reporting these questions only to lower my reporting rating/reputation. Thanks!

Specialist French · Accepted Answer

I am pretty sure it doesn't violate community rules, the best thing to do is ask for more details and inform the user that it is necessary as a standard procedure to give these details for such question because it assist us in finding application errors, os faults, os updates that cause conflicts and system specific issues.

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Hey Jeff I responded to your answer on RAID 0, could you check it out? Thanks for the help, I will be awarding best answer :) (sorry this isn't an answer to this question but there is no other way to contact you).

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Should you report questions that are too vague to be answered?

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