As you gain experience, your questions are naturally going to have an increasingly niche market. By the time I'm asking something on SO, it's pretty damn esoter

As you gain experience, your questions are naturally going to have an increasingly niche market. By the time I'm asking something on SO, it's pretty damn esoteric and it's going to take some thought on the part of the answerer. I've never dealt with negative ratings nor does that sound like something I'd complain about. I've also never had to "fight the mob" -- that doesn't sound like nontoxic behavior to me, btw. What I've done is set a bounty on my question and hope someone with the experience can answer it. If so, awesome. If not, well, I'll have to find a free answer another way. I don't see how that's a community's fault unless I entitle myself to the time and expertise of others. It seems pretty natural to me that SO is going to have diminishing returns as your questions have finer and finer points on them. That's how it works in the real world, too.