My experience on other Stack Exchange sites with similar levels of subjectivity (namely The Workplace) is that people generally _want_ to ask questions that are on topic.

People generally respond well to significant rewrites that capture the essence of the question. I have done this many times on Workplace and occasionally here, and when you leave a comment like, "I've made a large edit to your question to clarify it; if that changed your intent too much feel free to [edit] to clarify!" almost never receive a negative reaction.

The problem(s) are:

 - I'm demoralized from making edits here, because it feels like no one really wants to reopen questions (this includes people who want to make the site more friendly - in fact people in this category are precisely the people who I think _need_ to participate more in site moderation!)
 - Many questions here cannot be rewritten this way given lack of information from OP
  - Or are blatantly off topic, like the implementation questions
  - Some level of "what are you trying to do and why" is required to rewrite a question

Additionally, canned comments containing links are not useful at all, especially since nearly all close reasons contain links to the _same_ pages.

And last:

 - People here seem to prefer telling _others_ what to do about how to make the site better than making edits, placing constructive comments, voting (reopen/upvote/etc) themselves, flagging comments which are "not constructive" or too direct towards new users (use the custom flag if it's a marginal one; trust me as a mod elsewhere: that helps immensely)

Any person here who wants to improve the site culture can do so. The problem is that it certainly feels like many (most?) people do not seem to want to do things themselves, but instead tell the _others_ what to do.

It's hard to spend time finding the diamonds when you are shovelling the... crap.