Does this suggest that there's actually a finite limit on the number of questions?
When SO mods in the Linux/Unix stackexchange started closing questions as dupes, the questions that survived became highly focused, and I believe arrived slower. Narrow focus makes the answers less generally relevant. A culture of arrogant moderation also crept in, probably due to fatigue from dealing with dupes, and the close reading it takes to discern those dupes.
When SO mods in the Linux/Unix stackexchange started closing questions as dupes, the questions that survived became highly focused, and I believe arrived slower. Narrow focus makes the answers less generally relevant. A culture of arrogant moderation also crept in, probably due to fatigue from dealing with dupes, and the close reading it takes to discern those dupes.