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Lower the weight of grammar and punctuation in the low-quality filter?
I've recently been seeing a lot more questions on meta regarding how to fix a question so it passes the Low Quality Filter, which was tweaked on 4/17 to be more strict, and the majority of the posts ...
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Should we answer or comment on a typo question?
According to this, questions with a typo or syntax error should be closed. However we still have to address the issue where the OP has made a mistake. Where is the best place to respond to him, in the ...
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Is it time to tighten up the question quality filter?
As everyone here well knows, we get a lot of questions on Stack Overflow. And, as some of us here probably already know, there is a quality filter in place for new users:
Also, there are certain ...
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How to avoid problems associated with poor questions quality?
Because I would like to avoid problems (ban etc.) associated with poor questions on Stack Exchange, I would like to ask if is there a problem for the quality monitoring engine when my questions are ...
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Close all the typo questions
Update 2013/03/06: I've been playing around in the Data Explorer (first time I've used it) and put together a basic query to help identify typo related posts a little better, improvements welcome:
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“Free hosting” questions are both awful and ubiquitous
Searching for "free hosting" on Stack Overflow yields 5000+ mostly awful one- or two-sentence unclosed questions soliciting advice for free/cheap hosting. Disregarding the very low quality of most of ...
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Can these queries be added to the automatic low quality post identification process?
I've been poking around Data Explorer looking for queries that can reliably turn up posts with questionable formatting or quality issues. I found that the behavior of the Markdown engine can be ...
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Let's clean up low-quality posts with profanity on Stack Overflow
When I originally wrote this request, I was basing it off of Jeff's assertion that "expletives are not acceptable behavior on meta or any other Stack Overflow site." After going through a number of ...
