[kmontrose]

It's in the terms of service.

But seriously, Stack Exchange thrives because of its focus (which is maintained in large part by its culture of moderation, though only a small part of that is done by actual "moderators"; the community self-polices pretty well).

This contest is aimed at catching posts that would be closed before they're posted. Ideally we'll get a classifier that lets us give guidance to the askers. Better education of new/confused/troublesome users, leading to better posts, and fewer closed questions overall.

(Disclaimer: SE Inc. employee, yadda yadda yadda)

[sirtaptap]

Yeah, I figured this would be used to possibly provide some Just In Time help. Can't say I'm surprised people read that as "people posting questions detected to be closed will be shot in the face and fed to the SE Inc pet Unicorn"

[smackfu]

Good luck with that. Even your current human moderators can be extremely frustrating to deal with. Can't wait until they have the force of an algorithm behind them.