It's easy to say that SO is a hostile place when you get downvoted or closed for asking what seems like a perfectly fine question. This happened to me a couple

It's easy to say that SO is a hostile place when you get downvoted or closed for asking what seems like a perfectly fine question. This happened to me a couple of times and is pretty infuriating. But it is also annoying to try and give back to the community and find newbies who are at times extremely rude and ask "do you haz teh codez" questions. That's why this issue is so difficult to tackle. As an answerer, I downvote questions that are not well formed because I do not want other answerers to lose their time looking at that question. I personally believe SO lacks "triage" for incoming questions. Not every c# answerer should read every c# question. A new question may be marked as "for triage" (maybe this step could be skipped for users with some reputation), then reviewed as such by some community members. Badly formed questions would go into a bin for helping the user differently than a normal question. other questions could be sent directly to super user, code review or computer science or what not...