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by markus_zhang 58 days ago
Remove snarky moderation rules, especially the one about “this question has been asked” because sometimes it is a wrong accuse and users have to post a refute and wait for it to be reopened.

Basically make it more like Reddit askprogramming subreddit but keeps a higher standard about efforts made before asking the question. Questions should only be closed if there is no effort put into it or a genuine, obvious duplicate.

It’s also a good idea to embed an AI to point users to similar questions when posting their own questions. The original one sometimes didn’t work very well.