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by ircmaxell 4134 days ago
How do you solve the torrent of duplicates and low quality questions then? The review queue is backed up all the time (currently 11900 questions with 1+ close-vote).

Ignoring the problem does not make it go away. If you think one of the ways people are trying to solve it should be forbidden, that's fine. Please share an effective alternative.
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ProAm 4134 days ago
> How do you solve the torrent of duplicates and low quality questions then

This is what voting/scoring is for on all the SE sites. The cream will rise to the top. It would be easy enough for SE to disallow questions to show up in google results with a low or negative score, but leave it open for people to discuss, clarify or solve. The moderators on SO don't give the real community a chance by closing things within minutes. Duplicates aren't even a real problem, there is nothing wrong with seeing the same questions answered from a different approach or method.

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reitanqild 4134 days ago
> If you think one of the ways people are trying to solve it should be forbidden, that's fine. Please share an effective alternative.

We all agree about "send me teh codez", obvious duplicates etc.

If however this is the biggest problem then why is asking a question still one of a few things you can do without having rep?

If this is really the problem then raise the bar oh so slightly until you don't need to organize voting rings and detect duplicates at a speed that results in more than a few false positives.

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