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Automatically prevent the posting of some non-helpful comments/answers

I flag quite a lot of comments of the type you want to block as "no longer needed" and I don't think that these comments are in themselves such a bad thing. Very often, a simple "thank ...
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Automatically prevent the posting of some non-helpful comments/answers

There is a real problem with trying to apply simple, all-encompassing rules automatically, when there is no way to have the code consider things subjectively or account for all the various ways people ...
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Automatically prevent the posting of some non-helpful comments/answers

We tried that with titles. The word problem is banned in titles for example, that's why you see lots of posts with probelm in the title. We also don't want to end up with a Scunthorpe problem. All you'...
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