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by manigandham 1849 days ago
Because contributing has no value unless your contribution is actually good, and often there's a lot of crap that's negative value because it's wrong or off-topic or spam.

Having a barrier greatly helps overall quality.

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Having a barrier helps manageability of the site, so from a business' perspective it's been good, indeed.
Don't forget that a site being able to be managed & stay in business is also good for users.
It wasn't good for the users whose questions I wasn't allowed to answer, but you have a point.
So downvote the contributions, then -- but you can't do that if they can't be made in the first place! Read-only site for me too.

Then again, same stupid "earn points before you can post" system here on HN too.