I work for Stack Overflow: it might help to know that the prompt isn't permanent; it will go away in between 4-14 days (as the votes or flags that triggered it

I work for Stack Overflow: it might help to know that the prompt isn't permanent; it will go away in between 4-14 days (as the votes or flags that triggered it age away). We added that prompt because a huge number of people were asking questions that were either duplicates or were so poorly presented that the nugget of information that made them unique was obscured; either way, the asker wasn't getting an answer. It's been live for just under a year now, and the response has been incredible: more duplicate questions are confirmed by the askers themselves than are closed by voters; meanwhile, the number of people editing their questions has also gone up. Sorry you had a bad experience with it, but this is part of the work we've been doing to reduce the amount of conflict and frustration on the part of both askers and answerers.