Nope, if that was the case, people wouldn’t go around closing questions because you didn’t “try hard enough before asking” I used to ask “interesting” question

Nope, if that was the case, people wouldn’t go around closing questions because you didn’t “try hard enough before asking” I used to ask “interesting” questions to build that quality knowledge base, usually in less popular topics. At one point I had almost half the Emacs Lisp questions. I eventually ran into this problem where I explained that I tried nothing before asking. I briefly debated with the admins, then said if they felt that way to delete all my questions and I would delete my account. They agreed to delete my questions then quickly realized I had close to a couple hundred good questions then undid the delete. Needless to say, I no longer feed the site. Hopefully, with more advanced AI’s we can scrape the web, organize the knowledge, and have our questions answered, skipping the searching. Programmers could quickly become proficient in modern C++, Rust, Go, Haskell, etc by “Pair Programming” with an “AI” assistant.