I think this is down to lack of good filtering tools. Primarily duplicate or lazy questions shouldn't even be seen by high-rep users most of the time. It's was

I think this is down to lack of good filtering tools. Primarily duplicate or lazy questions shouldn't even be seen by high-rep users most of the time. It's wasting everyone's time to maximize the exposure of those kind of questions. Low rep users could do with answering those kinds of questions, though - low-hanging fruit to get a leg up. I have 35k rep and a 4 digit user id on SO. I've pretty much stopped using it for years, though. The one feature [1] I asked for, that would have kept me engaged, is a way of only showing questions from high-rep askers. Because I'd know they'd be interesting questions, and not trivially solved (because you know high rep users know how to Google things and do basic research). I'd also like the bar against "subjective" questions lowered in these kinds of questions, because questions that are matters of fact are almost always solved by sufficient use of Google or experimentation or intelligence, all of which can be assumed as a given for high rep users. [1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19659/search-filters-by-minimum-rep-maximum-views-maximum-answers-etc https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19659/search-filter... Another: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3987/can-we-filter-questions-by-reputation https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3987/can-we-filter-...