Marking questions as "stupid, irrelevant, lazy etc" is SO's way of maintaining site content quality. Though they do get a bit aggressive at times, it's actually a good thing. A site without that just turns into Reddit.
AKA Shitpost Central.
AKA Shitpost Central.
The military does it. Prisons do it. Stack Overflow does it. It clearly works and has for millennia. Just wonder if it is the only way.
I agree that if SO that was nice to people who did not do much prior research would quickly have a lot of junk.
* (I was once called out by dang for posting humor/meme content but fully comprehend now how keeping such stuff away yields better discussions)
if someone with a math degree and 10 years of experience in the field is treated as ignorant I don't know want to know how newcomers to stack overflow feel.