SO has decided what they think will make a good useful community. They might be wrong, but the way to tackle that is to create a different community.
Part of SO's strategy is to rigorously prune bad questions. A bad question has a specific meaning in SO. It's defined by the FAQ. Bad questions encourage more bad questions and dilute people available to work on good questions.
Becoming familiar with site guidelines is an established part of Netiquette, and has been for very many years.
> Read both mailing lists and newsgroups for one to two months before you post anything. This helps you to get an understanding of the culture of the group.
Part of SO's strategy is to rigorously prune bad questions. A bad question has a specific meaning in SO. It's defined by the FAQ. Bad questions encourage more bad questions and dilute people available to work on good questions.
Becoming familiar with site guidelines is an established part of Netiquette, and has been for very many years.
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855)
> Read both mailing lists and newsgroups for one to two months before you post anything. This helps you to get an understanding of the culture of the group.
tl;dr: their servers, their rules.