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Is it a problem if specific users harvest highly-voted questions on SE, then self answer, to farm a huge amount of rep? Eh, maybe, but it's not important enough to spend much time thinking about. ...
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#1: Initial revision
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Olin Lathrop
·
2020-07-19T16:33:04Z (over 4 years ago)
<blockquote>Is it a problem if specific users harvest highly-voted questions on SE, then self answer, to farm a huge amount of rep?</blockquote> Eh, maybe, but it's not important enough to spend much time thinking about. If they actually add new content here, then I don't see a problem with it. Ideally, rep here only comes from activity here, not from imported data. I can see how that might be difficult to implement, though. When importing a question, you probably want to preserve the votes on the answers that show which ones are good and which ones bad. It doesn't seem worth extra code and bookkeeping to treat imported votes differently. The much bigger problem is all those posts from long ago showing up here. I remember seeing a new question on Photography or Scientific Speculation here, reading a couple of pages, then realizing down the bottom that this was asked and answered 3 years ago. Argh! Thanks for the wasted of time. I've been downvoting such imported questions ever since.