Es gilt,

18:48 Nov 12, 2014 

You need to

13:27 Nov 12, 2014 

Indeed, a question is a question. Speaking only for myself, I only post a question when I'm stuck or uncertain which translation best fits the context.

Does an (allegedly) easy question make the asker a "non-pro"? I definitely don't think so. So here's to all of us Pros. ;)

13:20 Nov 12, 2014 

A good point!

I don't know why it's even necessary to classify questions as "pro" and "non-pro" in the first place. A question is a question, regardless of whether it's "easy" or "difficult", "pro" or "non-pro". One person might be able to answer a certain question immediately off the top of his of her head, thus making it "easy" for this person; another person might have to undertake a certain amount of research before coming up with a useful answer to the same question, thus making the question "difficult".

I can of course only speak from personal experience, but I have in recent times become rather tired of people reclassifying my "easy" questions as "pro" and my "difficult" ones as "non-pro" (on one occasion someone even suddenly wanted to reclassify a seven-year-old question of mine), with the result that I now generally look for answers to "easy" and "difficult" translation questions elsewhere.

22:39 Nov 11, 2014 

I think that people should be a bit warier about voting questions non-pro - it puts people off posting questions. Surely if it you think that the question is too easy then the easiest thing to do is just not bother to answer it. I don't think that "Es gilt" is actually that easy a phraselet to translate - depends on context - and you end up leaving the question answerer feeling very small and stupid.