Most of my experiences with StackOverflow are positive, but just once in a while I'm left baffled by what feels like an excessive use of force by the power wiel

Most of my experiences with StackOverflow are positive, but just once in a while I'm left baffled by what feels like an excessive use of force by the power wielders there. Are there some misaligned incentives? Or perhaps I'm not good at understanding the community guidelines. This is a question I asked yesterday that was down voted at impressive speed. Thankfully a couple of the commenters helped me out with information that benefits the community. Their comments would have made acceptable answers but they were unfortunately closed. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23998391/how-to-identify-javascript-libraries-used-on-a-web-site http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23998391/how-to-identify-... Or perhaps I did just ask a bad question, it wouldn't be the first time.