The answer according to way too many SO mods is that a question should primarily be to contribute to the SO knowledge base. Asking simply to get an answer is se

The answer according to way too many SO mods is that a question should primarily be to contribute to the SO knowledge base. Asking simply to get an answer is selfish. I wish SO had not been killed by chatbots, because I was looking forward to seeing it die by the gamified hands of its mob of mods.