thank you for bringing the default SO reasons why these are not the case, but first off >Often these are students asking for someone to solve their homework pr

thank you for bringing the default SO reasons why these are not the case, but first off >Often these are students asking for someone to solve their homework problems. I don't think I've been in any class since elementary school in which I did not have foundational knowledge, I'm talking "I just realized there must be a technical discipline that handles this issue and I can't google my way to it level of questions." If I'm a student, I have a textbook and the ability to read. I'm not asking textbook readable or relevant literature readable in the thing I am studying questions because I, being in a class on the subject I would "know the first thing" to quote my earlier post, that first thing being how to get more good and relevant knowledge on the thing I am in a class in. I'm talking about things you don't even know what questions to ask to get that foundational knowledge which is among the most interesting questions to ask - the problem with SO is it only wants me to ask questions in a field in which I am already fairly expert but I have just hit a temporary stumbling block for some reason. I remember when I was working on a big government security project and there was a Java guy who was an expert in a field that I knew nothing about and he would laugh and say you can't go to SO and ask about how do I ... long bit of technical jargon outside my field that I sort of understood hung together, maybe eigenvectors came up (this was in 2013) Second thing, yes I know SO does not want people to ask non-factual questions, and it does not want me to ask questions in fields in which I am uninformed, so it follows it wants me to ask questions that I can probably find out myself one way or another, only SO is more convenient. I gave some reasons why I do not find SO particularly convenient or useful given their constraints implying this is probably the same for others, you said two of my reasons were no good, but I notice you did not have any input on the underlying question of - why are people not asking as many questions on SO as they once did?