Related: How are new users supposed to participate on this site?
In most StackExchange sites, new users are encouraged to ask questions. On this site, we encourage running questions through the sandbox. However, 5 rep is needed to participate on meta. It seems contradictory; new users can post questions and are encouraged to post questions by the StackExchange format, but the questions they post are hit with a comment, asking them to use the sandbox.
A possible solution to this is to have a community wiki sandbox on the main site, but that might be a bad idea. However, this might work; a single sandbox doesn't clog the question queue.
How can we fix this problem?
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or something as complex as my answer collapser with persistence added. Me, however, I don't really care about them. Deleted answers are generally quite inactive, so they sink to the bottom naturally. \$\endgroup\$ – John Dvorak Feb 16 '14 at 6:52