Has there been any further thought on changing what is considered a compulsory field for users asking a question? Title, body and tags appear to be still the only compulsory ones and some users are too lazy to put something intelligent in the tag field which allows you to type literally anything anyway.
Product is not compulsory and, as discussed previously, Release is locked until you select a product. This was the reason given last time I asked about this:
"With respect to the release drop-down being filtered, we do think this is important as it provides users with a smaller, pre-filtered list that is easier to use."
That was over a year ago and it still makes no more sense now than it did then given the reality. As another quick small sample, from the first page of questions just before I typed this, just 8 questions (excluding a Mathworks Tech Support team question) contained product information other than 'Matlab' (for which no releases would be filtered out anyway) and of those, just 5 contain the release. So not only is release locked until you enter the (optional) product, but it isn't compulsory even when you do enter the product. We're simply talking about a list of release numbers that a user has to select from. Having it almost useless just to make it 'easier to use' by filtering out a few releases is creating a 'solution' to a problem that didn't exist.
The release field seems fundamental to me and trivial to include properly. It clearly isn't working as it currently is because very few people fill in the release field. Surely the purpose of Matlab answers is to allow people to ask questions and get answers to them as smoothly as possible. So making it more difficult for the people answering the questions by not having release information just seems totally counter-intuitive. Obviously having the product compulsory for all questions would be a big help too, though again some users just put totally inappropriate products (Matlab Coder and Matlab compiler seem very popular!).
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