It's in Off-topic. I don't see a problem with this. Even better: I wouldn't have seen it, if you wouldn't have created this topic.
True, many of us have off-topic even ignored. However, newbies don't and some did answer there, I've seen.
So imho OP question is
somewhat valid.
Can we have some consensus on the matter?
I don't think that the problem is big enough/widespread enough to be an actual problem.
In this very case I see OP gives 1 merit / post when the lowest rank that answered has 10 merits anyway. That won't do much.