<p>This is my advice for newbies for getting the questions answered:</p>

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<li>Join a smaller, more 'hobbyist' SE first, one that you either have some expertise in or can ask interesting questions of. Make sure it's one with a generous voting culture (Something like Worldbuilding, Movies or Sci-Fi)</li>
<li>Grind questions or answers until you've accumulated 200 rep and obtained the association bonus.</li>
<li>Your CV account will now get +100 rep, enough to allow you to give out a bounty.</li>
<li>Ask your question, make sure it's a quality one and put a bounty on it as soon as you are able.</li>
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<p>The bounty is absolutely necessary if you are to have any chance at getting a quality answer to your question, I've found.</p>

<p>If you have more questions that need answering, you are put in the unenviable position of having to grind for rep. Even if you have some knowledge and are able to answer some of the easier questions, it is highly likely that your answers will go by without comment, upvote or acceptance. </p>

<p>An alternative strategy is to regularly make edits to your question to keep it in the active queue. People may frown at this strategy, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.</p>

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<p>These strategies are symptomatic of a sick SE. One shouldn't have to resort to gaming the system to have a reasonable chance of getting a decent question answered. The main cause is the constant flood of new people asking their questions, and this is a tide that cannot be stopped, no matter how punitively bad questions by new users are downvoted/closed/deleted.</p>

<p>I don't have any real solutions to this, but one thing I think can help is to <strong>actively upvote questions by new users that are not bad</strong>. I.e. when going through the first post queue, if the question is not actively bad, but also not actively good, give it an upvote anyway. That little dopamine rush will make it more likely the new person will stay around after their first question, and will give them rep which they could save up for bounties in the future.  </p>
