> The site also suffered from a too strict "no repeat questions" rule. Why is that bad? In questions closed for this reason, there’s usually a link to a prior

> The site also suffered from a too strict "no repeat questions" rule. Why is that bad? In questions closed for this reason, there’s usually a link to a prior question. I wouldn’t call myself a particularly hardcore Stack Exchange user, but if anything it seems like what are essentially duplicate questions are too permitted. Soooo many questions on how to munge some extremely specific textual format into some other extremely specific textual format. The classic ‘give someone a fish’ issue.