Is this just a recent thing? I've had an SO account for years. Have only asked a handful of questions but they've never been closed.

What I found annoying was that a lot of the time I never got a helpful answer, and ended up solving it myself a few days later. I then went back and answered my own question (which ended up being helpful for a bunch of people and it got a lot of points).

What about the rest of Stack Exchange? I once asked for help identifying an insect and got pretty helpful answers there (bit of a segue - I ended up breeding a colony of those insects and still have them to this day).