Are we trying to make a more friendly/welcoming site?

[cwellsx]

@Lundin

Simply don’t let new confused users clash with power user veterans who have no interest in helping new users. Let the veteran users and elected moderators who actually enjoy helping newbies handle it.

That sounds sensible to me. I think I tried to suggest something like that here but Olin was against it…

@Olin

@cwellsx

Would it help said user to have a filtered view of the site, e.g. so they only see already-upvoted questions?

No, because the problem isn’t personally seeing crappy questions on the site, but crappy questions being on the site.

Olin might be of the view that so-called-crappy questions should get little or no help – that helpers are wrong and that help would be a disincentive to the author’s improving their own post, perhaps that the author should pay for (put the effort into) fixing their own mistakes.