What is meta? ×  In short, the bikeshed problem:  If you go
before the Board of Directors and ask for 1.5 billion dollars to
build a nuclear reactor, no one will review or discuss the
details of the plant. They will assume that experts have been
over every inch of the plans, and not want to look foolish by
asking a silly question.  However, if you ask the same group to
approve a 30 dollar expenditure for lumber with which to build a
bikeshed (presumably a British term for the smallest possible
building) then be prepared for a 45 minute discussion about all
aspects of the bikeshed, including the color of the paint. The
explanation for this is that everyone can grasp the scale of a
bikeshed.  To transform this problem to Stack Overflow terms,
questions that are trivial such as "How to convert a C string to
a QString or "What is the difference between . and ->" get a lot
more views, answers and votes than real questions of the form
"How do I frob this widget" that bother real professionals.
Fewer views mean less