<p>I've been seeing feedback from people in other 3DP communities that they think this stack exchange site is driving away new users by holding newbie questions to an excessively high standard for quality. On one hand, we all know SE works best with clear and logical questions that lead to clear and logical answers. But the majority of people seeking help with 3d printers don't seem to have enough of a technical foundation to know how to ask good questions. There's a large potential userbase (perhaps MOST potential users) that will need handholding for their first few questions. </p>

<p>How do you guys want to handle this?</p>

I think you highlighted one of the more important points, in that "
SE works best with clear and logical questions that lead to clear and logical answers
". From what I've noticed (and I just went back through my own voting history), there have been a number of "primarily opinion based" and "too broad" questions. I believe it's important to maintain quality questions/answers especially in this early stage of release. Please regard
this other meta post
asking what the guidelines are for proper 3D Printing community questions.
I, for one, feel that I learned the most SE etiquette by reading a large number of questions on SO as opposed to the SE documentation. It seems that a few of the questions we've gotten lately have been from completely new users to the Stack Exchange network. I don't like scaring people away from the site, so it is best to try and coach these new users.
I retract the following suggestion as I agree with
Mark Booth's answer
given his explanation.
I would suggest an informal guideline for closing questions:
First, notify the OP to the condition of their question. Perhaps even suggest a means to fix the errant condition(s).
If, after at least 24 hours of the comment, the OP has not either responded reasonably (within SE etiquette) nor updated the question, then begin the process of closing.
I'll leave this open to the community for amendments below: