Why is it not sufficient to say "if a question is trivial, boring, and demonstrates little to no research, downvote it"? Note that the hover-text for downvoting states quite clearly that a question or answer should be downvoted when it "does not show any research effort" or "it is unclear or not useful"!
-Beofett, 7 Nov 2012Beofett, 7 Nov 2012
I think the situation on SciFi & Fantasy is largely the same as that on Stack Overflow: a lot of simple questions that can be answered easily by external resources, some that probably should be, and folks who would rather post a lazy question here than do any of the legwork to find the answer themselves. Down-voting lazy questions should always be the first option, closing or deleting when they have serious problems of scope or quality, and directing folks to other sites (summarizing the answer found there) when there's nothing to be improved upon.
-Shog9, 31 Dec 2013Shog9, 31 Dec 2013
One passerby's opinion. Bio.SE is free to make its own decision on what to do with these questions, obviously, but I think these points are important to consider.
