[cmcginty]

I think it would help if they placed more limits on how much one person can interact with the site at a time. If you are someone that sits on SO for 8 hours a day every day, then there is a high correlation you become one of the people that starts driving new/casual users away.

I can imagine other improvements but all would hurt the site popularity in the short-term. Enough that I doubt SO would ever implement them. This is probably at the core of why the reputation for SO continues to worsen over time.

Hopefully they can turn it around since the core features of the site are invaluable.