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There are a lot of arbitrary rules baked into the code to theoretically improve the quality, as the original designers (particularly Jeff Atwood) believed that
by mark-r 9y ago
There are a lot of arbitrary rules baked into the code to theoretically improve the quality, as the original designers (particularly Jeff Atwood) believed that overall site quality was crucial to the long-term viability of the site. Unfortunately there's a lot of collateral damage.
- user5994461 9y agoIt seems to me that most rules will stop applying after some amounts of points. The founders and early users are never subjected to them, while it's a major hassle for everyone else.
- mark-r 9y agoNot always true, I have every privilege available on the site and I still ran into the minimum number of changes for an edit. I spent far too much time looking for innocuous changes just so I could push an essential edit through. I don't deny that some rules are like that though.
- user5994461 9y agoAnother example on edits then, you must be familiar with the "edit queue is full" bug? You can clean the edit queue if you have enough points.
- mark-r 9y agoIf you have enough points your edits don't even enter the queue, they're applied immediately.
- user5994461 9y agoWow. Privileges in action.