I've been contributing a lot of answers to Stack Overflow lately myself[1], and I agree that, after a while, I'm tired of trivial questions popping up all the t

I've been contributing a lot of answers to Stack Overflow lately myself[1], and I agree that, after a while, I'm tired of trivial questions popping up all the time, because frankly, they aren't interesting to solve. Not only that, but if you have too many of those on the site (which I think is currently the case on SO), then it makes it harder for contributors to actually find good, interesting problems to help solve. Not only that, but badly written questions that have to be edited to improve quality, or where you constantly have to ask the original poster for more information in order for the question to be solvable, are a huge time and energy suck. At times, I don't feel like participating in SO because of that. However, those are not reasons to be rude, and if you're a newbie and someone is being rude to you, I think you might have the option of flagging a comment and bringing moderator attention to it (though I'm not sure if that's peer moderation, or moderation from one of the official moderators). [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/456814/cupcake http://stackoverflow.com/users/456814/cupcake