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Policy Change : Disallow unregistered users from asking/answering questions?
From my own perspective of site moderation for a period of time now:
I can say my strong impression is that questions from unregistered users are much more often lower-quality, and not improved on ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Policy Change : Disallow unregistered users from asking/answering questions?
Requiring a user to register doesn't actually add that big of a barrier for new users to ask questions and to provide answers. It also doesn't do much to encourage them to play by the site rules.
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Policy Change : Disallow unregistered users from asking/answering questions?
Let us look at data:
Unregistered users ask ~ 52 questions per month.
Almost half of all questions asked by unregistered users are either deleted, closed or negatively scored.
At the same time, ...
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Policy Change : Disallow unregistered users from asking/answering questions?
While unregistered users being able to answer is not a big barrier, we need to apply more security to avoid spamming.
Here, that will open gate for spammers, and we do not want any junk here...
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Migrated posts treated as different user
The comment has been deleted.
The problem originates the fact that you have multiple accounts and they have not been merged. You can learn about merging accounts here:
https://dba.stackexchange.com/...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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