What is the exact objectives of the question ban measure?

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What are the objective of the post ban feature and how does it accomplish them?

Please, help me at improving the answer making it faq-like or answer by yourself — Revious, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:15

9 revs, 3 users 68% · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:29:58Z

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Reasons for its existence

Improving the quality of users' contributions
Discourage low quality posts¹
Encourage users to make an effort to search for their issue (to avoid duplicates)
Save moderators a lot of time and energy. The automated post bans may seem harsh at times, but moderator time is a very expensive resource, especially on a site the size of SO. Not having our moderators deal with what's at the very bottom of the trash bin is a very good thing.
The main reason is to solve the problem of the front page being flooded with low-quality questions

Achieved through:

Asking users to review and improve their old questions and answers
Asking users to contribute in a constructive way (e.g. suggesting edits and providing answers)

^1: Needs a definition of "low quality"

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I'd add that the automated bans save moderators a lot of time & energy. The automated bans may seem harsh at times, but moderator time is a very expensive resource, especially on a site the size of SO. Not having our moderators deal with what's at the very bottom of the trash bin is a very good thing.
– yannis
Mar 31, 2014 at 11:25
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Automated bans and question quality checks exist for only one reason: to solve the problem of the front page being flooded with low-quality questions.
– user102937
Mar 31, 2014 at 17:32
@RobertHarvey: you have a great experience here. Can you contribute more at explaining us about the history which lead to this choice or about its need? Thanks in advance.
– Revious
Apr 1, 2014 at 6:44

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