@fbueckert
My position is more nuanced than that: there's a minimum standard of duty for new users, but the system breaks down for even ideal new users when we have an unanswered question that a new user wants an answer to. If high-rep users actually want to help those people (they don't have to), they can not by arguing we shouldn't close questions by new users, but by acting as proxies for them by offering bounties, revising questions, and such