A lot of my questions seem to be met with a "what's your goal?" or "why would you want to do THAT?", challenging the validity of the request without getting into the problem, and are down-voted without explanation (this doesn't happen in all communities - RoR is more open than the go community, for example). I know that this causes me to think twice before posting a question, and I heard the same from others. How do you handle this? Do these remarks require answering?
Shouldn't there be a way for the community to regulate this?