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The minimum-text body length does not even come close to fixing the issue. Here are some recent examples:

(PS: This is an editing field day, please help out by adding the code to the questions themselves if you have a moment)

These 20 examples took me a matter of minutes to find, and they've all been asked after 10-17-2012, when the "fix" should have been in place.

Keep an eye on these search results. The majority of them exhibit the link-to-code-only problem.

The accepted answer is not an acceptable solution. This needs to be addressed more aggresively.


Proposed solution:

Okay I know this isn't perfect but maybe it'll give someone else an idea.

How about simply not allowing users to post questions that include a link to a specified set of code-hosting sites (JSFiddle, IDEOne, etc.) and do not include any code? Is there ever a chance that a link to one of those sites and no code is actually a valid question? I don't think so. Wouldn't this be relatively easy to implement?

Updated per comments below:

In addition, we should tell users why they can't ask a question that isn't meeting our quality standards. We could display a message and link to a useful meta Q&A or an item in the FAQ.