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Is this site's penalty factor for Hot Network Questions still necessary?
I don't know if it's necessary anymore. Not only have we been able to tighten and focus the scope of the site over the last 8 years, but I believe there's been a dramatic decline in people posting bad ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Is the block against unregistered users asking questions still necessary?
My initial gut reaction would be that it is still necessary. I'd have to dig and look at the hard data, but we do get a good number of off-topic posts from people who went through the hurdles of ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Is this site's penalty factor for Hot Network Questions still necessary?
Penalty factor should be removed, and not only from our site. It is useless, plain and simple.
A fairly prominent example of how this factor is useless is Workplace. Over there, this factor (the same ...
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