I've been asking questions here for 3-4 months and every time I try to ask a question it either gets downvoted within 10 minutes and people say that "**you're just looking to gain reputation**" and "**come back with a proper question**" or "**it's a duplicate**" and "**do more research**". And it also gets closed with people, without even reading the question: "**It's off-topic**", "**homework question"**, "**too vague**", and I'm not even going to discuss the 1-2 sentence questions that aren't even closed for being too vague, but somehow 4 whole hours of work is somehow too vague?! Anyway, I've been trying for the last 2 months to try and ask good, worthwhile questions, but I can't do that. Can anyone help me with this? I've looked at the help center and read it **thoroughly** multiple times, and searched up anything with "how to ask good questions" or "how to participate in meta and not die trying". I've tried to do that, but no matter what I'm always struck by downvotes, for I don't even know what reason. I'm just looking for a way to thrive and contribute to this community, and nobody's letting me do that. It might be that I'm just too late and too new. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/375424/why-is-wikipedia-asking-for-donations (deleted) https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/375417/proposed-platinum-badges