I tried a couple of times to post questions on SO. Every time I followed the instructions, searched first and didn't find an answer, spent the better part of an hour composing the best possible question and simplified examples...

All to have my post locked/marked/closed/whatever either as a duplicate (it wasn't) or some other bullshit.

Call it a skill issue if you want, but I was going there for help at the time and just got the door slammed in my face repeatably with no guidance as to how to stop that from happening. The gate-keeping was simply insane, and it's clear I wasn't the only one that decided it wasn't worth the time.