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I think your idea to limit the number of question that you could answer in a 24 hour period might be worth some thought. Also, the stated reason for lowering t
by michaelbuckbee 16y ago
I think your idea to limit the number of question that you could answer in a 24 hour period might be worth some thought.
Also, the stated reason for lowering the karma for asking questions was that there were some people who were earning massive karma gains by just asking tons of duplicate and "easy" questions (stuff like just going through the ruby docs and asking what each function was for).
- dangrossman 16y agoThere is already a daily reputation cap. You can still keep answering questions, but beyond 200 points or something around there, you stop earning points until the next day.
- joe_the_user 16y agoAn actual limit to questions might do more than the reputation cap. My vague, working hypothesis is that Karma gets people moving but habit keeps them going. The habit of rapid question question answering might carry the person well past what the incentive of karma does. Also, the effect of having to answer quickly, before someone else does, directly reinforces quickness whereas a Karma limit is rather indirect. Plus, each question answered can keep earning karma beyond the one day limit. Of course I'm speculating in this whole process...