What is meta? ×  Based on these proposals, it seems that the
developers of Stack Exchange are trying to prevent "bad
questions" from getting into the system:  The first stops those
users who try to game the rep system by asking lots of mediocre
questions, while the second attempts to prevent those users who
consistently ask poor questions from continuing to ask (note
that these are different).  These are two classes of bad askers,
but there are bound to be more examples. What kinds of question
askers are parasitic on the Stack Exchange network?  (The main
reason I ask this is that in order to have successful changes to
the question or rep system, we need to know just what kinds of
users we wish to discourage)  EDIT: Most of the answers so far
are great for Stack Overflow, but not so much for other sites on
the SE network (why do those on Cooking need to have debugging
skills? :P). Anything that is more network-general would be a
much better answer to this question....  share|improve this
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