[DanBC]

The blog post contains a contradiction.

The author says many questions are simple and could be answered by a simple web search.

The author then complains that easy questions get very many upvotes.

But those upvotes come from people doing a simple web search.

That's one of the aims of StackExchange - to create a website that has good quality answers for questions, and to have those answers show high in search engine results.

EDIT: " This is not the way a community of mature users acts." Well, it is, because it clearly happens on any site that has mature users and voting. It happens on SE; it happens on HN; it happens on Reddit (event the sub-reddits that have older readers). It's probably not useful to think about what an ideal adult will do with vote buttons.