The filter goes both ways. Some may feel discouraged when SO closes/downvotes you to the coldest pits of "I'm a newb and don't know anything", but imagine a si

The filter goes both ways. Some may feel discouraged when SO closes/downvotes you to the coldest pits of "I'm a newb and don't know anything", but imagine a situation far, far worse: Imagine searching for this exact question and getting 36 SO questions all asking the same basic thing, just tweaked ever-so slightly. It sucks to have mods putting in some effort with strict-filter rules, but without their filtering, the 'noise' ratio would be horrendous and would render the generally useful SO into oblivion.