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I was curious as to whether the closure rate has been getting worse over time, so I wrote this Data Explorer query. There has definitely been a surge during the past year. (Note that this includes deleted questions; also, the explorer dump stops at March 15 right now.)

percent of questions closed

We had to deal with a similar surge on Quant.SEQuant.SE, where I am a moderator. We dealt with it by revamping our FAQ to be extremely clear about what we did not want on our site. We've also been vigilant about getting the wrong people off the site with a combination of persuasion and suspensions. It was pretty harsh, but it worked. We have halved our closure rate in the past few months while maintaining a steady visitors growth rate.

One thing I notice on Programmers.SE is that there is still disagreement about what's on-topic. Many of the what-language-should-I-use and career advice questions get a few answers before being shut down! It might be instructive for the poor souls who mistakenly answered an off-topic question to be told exactly why they should not have bothered.

I was curious as to whether the closure rate has been getting worse over time, so I wrote this Data Explorer query. There has definitely been a surge during the past year. (Note that this includes deleted questions; also, the explorer dump stops at March 15 right now.)

percent of questions closed

We had to deal with a similar surge on Quant.SE, where I am a moderator. We dealt with it by revamping our FAQ to be extremely clear about what we did not want on our site. We've also been vigilant about getting the wrong people off the site with a combination of persuasion and suspensions. It was pretty harsh, but it worked. We have halved our closure rate in the past few months while maintaining a steady visitors growth rate.

One thing I notice on Programmers.SE is that there is still disagreement about what's on-topic. Many of the what-language-should-I-use and career advice questions get a few answers before being shut down! It might be instructive for the poor souls who mistakenly answered an off-topic question to be told exactly why they should not have bothered.

I was curious as to whether the closure rate has been getting worse over time, so I wrote this Data Explorer query. There has definitely been a surge during the past year. (Note that this includes deleted questions; also, the explorer dump stops at March 15 right now.)

percent of questions closed

We had to deal with a similar surge on Quant.SE, where I am a moderator. We dealt with it by revamping our FAQ to be extremely clear about what we did not want on our site. We've also been vigilant about getting the wrong people off the site with a combination of persuasion and suspensions. It was pretty harsh, but it worked. We have halved our closure rate in the past few months while maintaining a steady visitors growth rate.

One thing I notice on Programmers.SE is that there is still disagreement about what's on-topic. Many of the what-language-should-I-use and career advice questions get a few answers before being shut down! It might be instructive for the poor souls who mistakenly answered an off-topic question to be told exactly why they should not have bothered.

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I was curious as to whether the closure rate has been getting worse over time, so I wrote this Data Explorer query. There has definitely been a surge during the past year. (Note that this includes deleted questions; also, the explorer dump stops at March 15 right now.)

percent of questions closed

We had to deal with a similar surge on Quant.SE, where I am a moderator. We dealt with it by revamping our FAQ to be extremely clear about what we did not want on our site. We've also been vigilant about getting the wrong people off the site with a combination of persuasion and suspensions. It was pretty harsh, but it worked. We have halved our closure rate in the past few months while maintaining a steady visitors growth rate.

One thing I notice on Programmers.SE is that there is still disagreement about what's on-topic. Many of the what-language-should-I-use and career advice questions get a few answers before being shut down! It might be instructive for the poor souls who mistakenly answered an off-topic question to be told exactly why they should not have bothered.