Yeah this always turned me off of contributing in earnest to SE. The purpose is supposed to be a general purpose site with an answer to _all_ questions, but in

Yeah this always turned me off of contributing in earnest to SE. The purpose is supposed to be a general purpose site with an answer to _all_ questions, but in practice it's just a site with answers to questions an expert might have. Almost everything below that level of technicality gets culled.