I was searching yesterday for answers that contained the phrase "Thanks in advance" since this is often a marker of "I have the same problem" not-an-answers. I discovered that many of these hits are answers that start by quoting the question in all its Hi, I'm new, I'm trying to learn X, how do you do X, I tried doing X but its not working, plz help urgent, thanks-in-advance
glory.
And that got me thinking - how do we, as a community, feel about question-quoting? I think that answers NOT quoting any part of the question feel more stackexchang-ish, but maybe that's just me? And if question-quoting is ok, can we at least advise people just to quote the actual, you know, QUESTION part of it and not the preamble or closing bits (which some people feel shouldn't even be in the question, and I'm sure we all agree don't need to be in the answers.)
The FAQ doesn't have a section on answering, but it does have a slightly hidden link to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-answer which doesn't cover this.