It was reviewed quite extensively on meta. This debate is years old. Can we get a resolution on this?
I came to the site far after the question was initially presented. In fact, it was already exhaustively summarized and five years later I have nothing to add.
In our FAQ, it says
Basic SQL - ask on Stack Overflow
It's time to drop "basic" qualifier and welcome all SQL questions. We need to purge that line:
Think about it like this, if you ask a question here in 2012 you may have had it closed for being too basic. Over the next five years you worked on your skill. You were leaving the cave. You've been contributing to StackOverflow your "basic" questions. And now, years later, we have to tap you on the shoulder to tell you about this awesome expert community we have and what we have to offer, and why you should be welcomed back.
I'm prepared to answer the basic questions, and it's easy to dupe-them over better questions with sufficient answers. The network gives us that functionality. It's a lot of work to actively recruit people back to the site who have been turned away and to convince them that the question is sufficiently not-basic. Please stop making us do that. Let's get more questions, more votes, more activity, and treat all people regardless of skill level equally on the basis of subject matter. This also serves our Be Nice mission statement.
And, other than confusing people that come in now, I don't find this enforced anyway much. It's almost as if it's an antiquated relic that needs some attention. I don't think I've ever seen anyone in the past year close a question, in good form, for being too basic. Myself and many others salivate at a good question, basic or not.
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Not sure what we should do here, but I would advise people to vote on this matter on this question
