From a newbie developer's perspective, your description of the question categories hit the nail on the head. 80% of the time when I have a tough problem, the question will likely fall into #2. Since any downvoting at all could remove my site privileges, I usually hold off until it's narrowed enough for category #3. And by that point, my esoteric question isn't really that useful to me anymore.
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From a newbie developer's perspective, your description of the question categories hit the nail on the head. 80% of the time when I have a tough problem, the question will likely fall into #2. Since any downvoting at all could remove my site privileges, I usually hold off until it's narrowed enough for category #3. And by that point, my esoteric question isn't really that useful to me anymore.