If you do not have the time to appropriately respond to the question, then don't respond. Your phrasing makes it seem as though SO moderators are battling an on

If you do not have the time to appropriately respond to the question, then don't respond. Your phrasing makes it seem as though SO moderators are battling an onslaught of poor questions and the site will collapse if those questions are not deleted as soon as possible. It is the over-zealousness to close questions that is part of the problem. If you are unable to offer constructive feedback to the user who asked the question then you are really just acting as a stop-gap and not really fixing the root of the problem. People ask "bad" questions for a lot of reasons but it you are unable to steer them in a direction that allows them to understand what makes a question "good", they will continue to ask "bad" questions.