Since most questions will not be "high-quality" (for any reasonable definition of "high-quality"), most new participants' experience will be of asking a questio

Since most questions will not be "high-quality" (for any reasonable definition of "high-quality"), most new participants' experience will be of asking a question and being told "that's a bad question" either explicitly (downvotes) or implicitly (editing their question to "improve" it). This describes the problem with SO remarkably well - how it constantly trends towards being even less nice than it was two months beore. I've gotten SO points and even been congratulated over some questions and some answer. But I'm still angry, seven years on, over having one particular question being deleted - it was my question and it was a question I wanted an answer to it.