<p>There has been a lot of questions and confusion about what is acceptable here on 3D Printing SE. Let's go ahead and discuss what types of questions should be acceptable on the site.</p>

<p>We're going to do this based on votes. I'll leave it up to debate in the comments below, but we'll emulate Area51 question requirements. Here are the guidelines:</p>

<ul>
<li><strong>10 positive votes</strong>, passes.</li>
<li><strong>One answer per topic</strong>. The focus is voting on topics, and votes pertain to the validity of the topic.</li>
<li>Similar topics that can be merged should explicitly mention the deprecated topic.</li>
<li>Appropriately passed topics should have closed questions re-opened (as appropriate).</li>
</ul>

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.