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Answer by Michał Perłakowski for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive...
The new users asking terrible questions isn't actually the problem. A question without any upvotes and answers will eventually get roombad. Also, why would someone ask a question if they got no...
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I feel like we need some numbers to help understand the problem here. I'm not going to draw any conclusions, just present some data that's a bit hard to get... If you think of something else that'd be...
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Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user registrations?We seem to be shooting down most suggestions that intend to have the net effect of throttling new questions. I'm attempting to...
View ArticleAnswer by Travis J for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new...
You pose two separate issues here. One in your title which is "Should SO be more restrictive with new user account creation?" I think that the current amount of work done on the Stack Overflow team...
View ArticleAnswer by agc for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
It's not obvious what fixes might work here without actually testing things. Sometimes ideas sound good, but contain some only later obvious flaw that dooms them. And online we see immense web business...
View ArticleAnswer by Ian Ringrose for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about...
What if there was a required payment of $1 to create an account, the payment having to be made from a credit/debit card in the name of the person creating the account?As it is hard to gets an unlimited...
View ArticleAnswer by user3956566 for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new...
It's difficult to prevent users from creating throw away accounts. The obvious email providers as you mentioned can be banned, but then this leaves the trash that is posted from accounts such as...
View ArticleAnswer by Kevin for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
I think what makes this site so great is the very thing that is causing this "problem". That is the ease of asking questions for a new user. You can't take that away like so many have previously said....
View ArticleAnswer by Pred for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
We have a well performing Low Quality Posts queue, in which most of the posts in question are landing due to the automatic flagging or by user interaction.Is it possible to hide the questions written...
View ArticleAnswer by 700 Software for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about...
An obvious first step would be to prevent the use of throwaway email providers for new accounts. ... sharklasers.com, mailinator.com, yopmail.com, etc...Absolutely! This is a great idea.IP-based...
View ArticleAnswer by Heretic Monkey for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about...
There have been some feature-requests over the years which have proposed slowing down the question-creation process for new users. We could implement this idea of a "question wizard" in a way that,...
View ArticleShould Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user registrations?
The largest problem facing the site today is the flood of terrible questions coming in, mostly from new user accounts. I've mentioned this before, but I suspect that some of the worst of this is due to...
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Answer by Mo_ for Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user...
Shog9's numbers were easier to comprehend for me with a graphic (can't edit their post, because we're on meta):
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