I recommend some type of cookie-cutter response that we can just copy-and-paste depending on the mistake made. For example:

"This type of question is considered a 'poll' and is outside Stack Overflow's scope. Please rephrase the question so that it can be answered definitively or it will be closed."

...or something like that. I think that the moderators on javaranch.com do something similar when their newbies break the rules.

I recommend some type of cookie-cutter response that we can just copy-and-paste depending on the mistake made. For example:

This type of question is considered a 'poll' and is outside Stack Overflow's scope. Please rephrase the question so that it can be answered definitively or it will be closed.

...or something like that. I think that the moderators on javaranch.com do something similar when their newbies break the rules.