@dynasny: I do completely agree both with your points about the readability issues as well as the lack of official comment on the matter, but perhaps it would be beneficial to also update the title of this post to reflect the fact it's questioning the lack of comment rather than the readability as already addressed?

(cont.) I find it unlikely that more would find it desirable to seek their place and participate here for any length of time as the problem has not been resolved. I for one am somewhat of an example: long-time user, only recent member and active participant but I've already become quite tired of the tedium that is the average question quality on this site, and I don't think that the blame lies solely with the community members.

I agree that a single moderator or a small group of moderators taking on the majority of the burden of an SE site is a recipe for disaster in the long run (in that they will likely get burned out and leave as noted), but there seems to be something lacking here. @Shog9, if you do indeed believe that this community is dying, and that for it to thrive it needs more than just moderators to, well, moderate - but the rest of the participants are quite unequivocally raising concern about the quality of the questions - why is it surprising that they get tired of participating?

@JonEricson have we seen any specific examples of the close reason being unrelated to the main thrust of the question yet?

That is to say, whomever asks the question needn't be an expert on the topic(s) at hand per se, but they should certainly be a professional to participate here - and if it is clear that they are not, there should be a mechanism in place to deal with it.

Just to clarify some wording from @JimB above; "I would suggest that an expert that walks away because other people can answer an "easy " question probably has other issues aside from deciding that its an experts only forum" - I think it's worth noting that there is nothing here implying that it's an "experts only" forum, merely a professionals only one. The point here is that experts who add value to the site with their responses are more likely to leave if it's overwhelmed with questions from non-professionals, and I believe responses like HopelessN00b's need to be how it's dealt with.