Oh okay well it says "We’d love to help you, but the reality is that not every question gets answered. To improve your chances, here are some tips:" and displays a search bar and says "Have you thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question?" and below that says to be on topic, be specific, make it relevant to others, keep an open mind, and some explanation on each of those, and finally has a checkbox saying "thanks, I will keep these tips in mind when asking" before it lets you through to be able to ask your question

I like the setup on Stack Overflow (by far the largest Stack Exchange site). When you click the "Ask Question" button, it brings up stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/advice explaining that you should search for your question before asking a new question. This hopefully discourages people from bogging down the site with so many duplicate questions.

I am a naturally curious person

okay sure, but the point is it called attention to my likely-erroneous assumption