This subject came up in the town hall chat: how basic is too basic, and more importantly, how do we help users to write questions that are not too basic?
"Find in dictionary" questions
Can we come up with guidelines, a la the Good Subjective-Bad Subjective blog post, for asking "what does [x] mean" and "what's the difference between [x] and [y]" type questions? The Are Some Questions Too Simple blog post gives some guidelines for the answerer, but I'm hoping to come up with suggestions for the asker.