<p>The amount of posts being voted to closed is getting ridiculous.  The last two posts have been printing related, one looking for information and the other a design question for 3D printing yet both have been voted to be closed.  </p>

<p>Yes, I have read the other Meta post about how closing is not permanent (<a href="https://3dprinting.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/111/closing-locking-too-many-questions">Closing/locking too many questions?</a>) but this site does not have much to offer right now and I can tell you if I was new here I wouldn't stick around and edit the post time after time to get an answer when I'm sure most people here can answer the question.  The site is now running at 1.2 questions per day and I don't see that going up at all if the criteria isn't changed for how people are voting.  If that's how everyone wants the site run then that's fine but I'm sure you'll be alone here.</p>

I absolutely agree. I believe we all want this site to maintain high quality, but right now almost no questions fall within our desired scope and form.
I think we either need to:
Change the acceptable scope of questions to be asked
Change how we welcome new users
Right now most new users do not ask questions "the SE way", which quickly leads to down-votes and closing votes. For new users this is a direct slap in the face.
What we rather should do is to
encourage
new users to improve their question, and if they do, give them the highly desired up-votes to make them come back for more.
I think the reputation system on SE sites is a great motivator for writing good questions and answers. And if we want this site to grow, we need to let our fellow users grow with it.