I know that we want to encourage people to do some research before asking their question, but what is the harm in allowing relatively easy to answer questions to be asked on here? It seems that would allow for: more questions; potentially more traffic; and possibly a more inclusive feel, because people might be less intimidated to ask "easy questions."
I mean it would seem that one of our goals should be to be among the first page of google search results, a la stackoverflow.com, but we won't necessarily get there if all we have are serious, and hard questions. Maybe that isn't a community goal though.