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Feeders, not help vampires, are the problem [duplicate]

It's all too easy to blame Help Vampires for problems in Stack Overflow. But it's not them, it's us. The people who feed them. If the question is an exact duplicate, let them know it's an exact ...
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Reputation purely from questions [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: The surest way to gain lots of reputation on Stack Overflow- ask questions Can there be a badge encouraging answering a certain ratio of questions? As I understand it, we ...
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Auto expand comments of specific answer when browsing directly to that answer

When I browse to a specific answer and it has more than five comments, I would like the comments to become expanded automatically instead of having to click the "add/show [x] more comments" - after ...
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2 answers
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Is "question-blocked" designed to be more severe than temporary suspension?

So SO's recent super secret method for preventing problem askers from asking more questions has been getting some recent attention. As I understand it, they can use the site in all ways they ...
Michael McGowan's user avatar
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Proposal for limiting mediocre questions (unit testing for questions?)

In my answer to Should we require minimum reputation to continue asking questions? I came up with a possible solution. The essential problem is that some people come to SO, ask lots of lame questions,...
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Allow marginal question askers to regain their question-asking privileges by performing community service

Note: This is a response to, an alternate proposal, for Should we require minimum reputation to continue asking questions? OK, I realize this is a radical idea, but here goes: When a user drops ...
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Should new users be encouraged to answer questions more than ask them?

On StackOverflow, I started by answering questions, not asking them. Even though I'm no huge expert, there are plenty of questions that are easy enough that I can answer them easily or with a little ...
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Implementing a warning system before account locks [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: how can you know that you are quite close to losing your account? There have been a lot of discussion the last couple of days on what to do with bad/excessive askers and how ...
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