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by reitanqild 3580 days ago
> Having people ask you the same questions over and over again who don't care at all about wasting your time drives away the people most able to answer questions.

I see this mentioned a number of times but it seems nobody cares to do the obvious thing: impose a tiny tiny (e.g. $1 or wait n hours after creating your account) threshold to get the privilege of asking questions.

It is almost as if some people enjoy the current situation :-/

Furthermore the current situation has already driven off a number of contributors, not everyobe because they are bored but because they find it toxic.