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by benblack86 5488 days ago
Long questions with long answers (What is a situation called in which the inflation rate is high and the economic growth rate is low? - stagflation) require more time than short questions with short answers (What herb is used in a Mojito? - mint). I know the answer to both, but I only got the points for one...
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It's due to people writing, pardon my french; shit questions. Ideally this is solved by crowd sourcing good reviews that prevent long bad questions like that from getting in. At the moment over-eagerly publishing peoples questions to get the numbers up. Working on.