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by tenpoundhammer 1591 days ago
I think there are more people, so there are many more problems. Policing, downvoting, and removing low-value content is generally done by a small number of people. The number of issues has increased faster than the number of people helping to solve them. Dang does excellent work, but it takes a certain percentage of the community to keep things in check.

Edit fixed spelling mistake