They could add a "newbie" tag: this makes the question immune to downvoting (?) and is by default (?) not shown in the main feed, people have to opt-in to help

They could add a "newbie" tag: this makes the question immune to downvoting (?) and is by default (?) not shown in the main feed, people have to opt-in to help with the newbie questions... We are all lazy, but when a newbie is lazy it looks rather heinous to the expert. I got a friend that I am helping to start programming. I see that he "gets" it, but guess what, he's fairly lazy (like me) and is constantly stuck on simple simple stuff. If he went to SO with that he would get obliviated for sure.