What's going on? Lost Rudder?

[Mr Thin Skin]

What's going on here at the SDMB? The level of civility has been dropping rapidly. Just today in the GQ section, a fellow "elbows" posted four questions that had been burning in him for TEN years

http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/002083.html

jayron 32 popped back that

well, some of these questions are obviously not worth answering

I've noticed more and more questions are being shot down unanswered.

What's up?

I thought the 2 unworthy questions were legitimate questions.

Is it just that you feel the OP should delve into serious research before asking, maybe search the SDMB archive (with the busted search engine), or go to www.ask.com.

Is not this board, and the SD in general, just for those sort of burning questions?