> It's easy to ask bad questions. It's harder to ask well-researched and high-effort questions. This asymmetry inevitably results in the SO site being flooded with bad questions.

A few ideas to make it harder to ask dumb questions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20861911

In short: when accounts are free, activate instantly and can ask questions immediately, don't be surprised that people ask stupid questions.