I know I'm out of my depth here, I tried to decipher the graphs but I found them confusing.

All I know is, when a site such as Stack Overflow, attracts millions of visitors daily and the number of users between 1 and 50 rep swamp the site with boring repetitive Googleable questions, and users who are only interested in badges and points post "cheap" easy answers, the quality goes down the toilet.

The users who have the rep to vote, will continue to do so as long as they enjoy the “game”. Users who care about quality, will vote less and less as their enjoyment of the site sinks lower and lower.

The solution? Drastically, radically, mercilessly, reduce the number of questions from new users flooding SO.

Give new SO users a quota of five questions. If none of these questions attract at least an upvoted (+1) answer, those users are suspended from asking further questions. If they need to post questions because their livelihood depends on it, then charge them a fee: 10 dollars gives them the opportunity to post twenty questions. Limit the answers to hi-rep users (25k) to answer these questions and pay them in swag or something or another. Watch those answers and upvotes skyrocket.

I know this answer will be downvoted to hell.

I know I'm out of my depth here, I tried to decipher the graphs but I found them confusing.

All I know is, when a site such as Stack Overflow, attracts millions of visitors daily and the number of users between 1 and 50 rep swamp the site with boring repetitive Googleable questions, and users who are only interested in badges and points post "cheap" easy answers, the quality goes down the toilet.

The users who have the rep to vote, will continue to do so as long as they enjoy the “game”. Users who care about quality, will vote less and less as their enjoyment of the site sinks lower and lower.

The solution? Drastically, radically, mercilessly, reduce the number of questions from new users flooding SO.

Give new SO users a quota of five questions to answer. If none of these answers attract at least a positive score (+1), those users are suspended from answering further questions. If they need to post questions because their livelihood depends on it, then charge them a fee: 10 dollars gives them the opportunity to post twenty questions. Limit the answers to hi-rep users (25k) to answer these questions and pay them in swag or something or another. Watch those answers and upvotes skyrocket.

I know this answer will be downvoted to hell.