preventing cat=? when asking questions from a question page

Question

I have noticed that many of my questions are miscategorized because I get a lot of traffic direclty to my questions pages. When users click the "ask a question" button from a question page the category is automatically defaulted to the category of the question they came from. Is there an easy way to disable this so that the user must select their own category?

Answer 1

You need to modify the core to do this - in qa-page.php, change:

array('cat' => $lastcategoryid)

... to ...

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