Since the idea seems to have been well-received, I've turned this feature on. Feel free to log out and verify that it works...

So how will we know if this has had any positive effects? Here's some baseline data on questions from [new users][1]:

    week          Questions Bad Good PctNewUserQuestionsBad 
    ------------- --------- --- ---- ---------------------- 
    2013-07-22    364       147 217  40.38                  
    2013-07-29    382       179 203  46.86                  
    2013-08-05    352       163 189  46.31                  
    2013-08-12    361       166 195  45.98                  
    2013-08-19    400       196 204  49                     
    2013-08-26    432       178 254  41.2                   
    2013-09-02    453       189 264  41.72                  
    2013-09-09    389       171 218  43.96                  
    2013-09-16    410       189 221  46.1                   
    2013-09-23    386       159 227  41.19                  

![New user question quality graph][2]

...Where again, a "bad" question is one that was closed, deleted (by someone other than the author) or down-voted below 0. If we can get the % to drop significantly without seriously hurting the number of *good* questions, we'll call this a success. 

Don't let me forget to come back in a couple weeks and run this query again...


  [1]: http://serverfault.com/help/privileges/new-user
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/HfApg.png