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There are four things we can do with bad or poorly written questions.  In order of seriousness, these are:<ol>

<li>Leave a comment.

<li>Downvote.

<li>Close.

<li>Delete.

</ol>

The questions you mention have mostly been addressed with #1 and #2.  Do you really think more severe measures are appropriate for the questions you mention?  I'm really asking.  I'd like to know what the more active users think.

My own impression was that while they weren't well written, closing them would have had a negative effect since they were self-answered.  Closing would leave the poorly written answer, but prevent others from adding better answers.  That worked in a few cases, like <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/283958">here</a>.  In other cases, nobody else jumped in with a better answer.

Ultimately, this is a problem of quality.  Voting is the primary way to address that.  In that sense, the system seems to have worked, for example <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/284207">here</a>.  The question wasn't off topic, and I think we all understood what was being asked, so closing didn't make sense.  The problem was really the laziness, and the votes reflected that.

A recurring theme is sloppiness showing no respect for the users here, sometimes to the point of being rude.  Of course everyone's idea of where these lines are is different.  I thought some progress was being made in that regard, but just now saw this <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/284219">disaster of a schematic</a>.  I thought that was too sloppy to let live, and closed it.  I'd like to hear from other users that have invested some effort into this site what they think should have been done.

This site is young and hasn't yet reached critical mass.  We have to walk a fine line between not killing content to allow reaching critical mass, but not scaring off potential contributors with too much poor content.  However, that's a whole meta discussion on its own.  We need more people asking questions.  Get the word out to everyone you know.