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The amount of closely related posts is growing fast - some active cleaning is been done both by both users and moderators, but it doesn't seem to be enough. We're close to 3000 questions, and even with using all daily votes (30) we can vote only 1/100 as important.

I also see that very often votes are spreading among closely related posts, leaving less votes for each (but looking at the sum, giving a lot of votes to the subject) So to speak, the subject is actually seen very important by the members, but it's left out from the most voted questions list because of the spreading. A good example of this can be seen with a search for questions with bug + email tags. There are 73 questions (but not 73 bugs!), gathering about 500 votes together - but when looking at the votes for a single question, it's unlikely getting a roadmap tag soon. Members, we have a problem, partially caused by ourselves.

The question here is: Is there something more that we can do than try to clean up?

To begin with, my suggestion is to add a line like this to the help page:

• "Before posting your first question, please go through the guidelines posted here"

(The help page is already suggested to our new members, when they join the community)

The amount of closely related posts is growing fast - some active cleaning is been done both by both users and moderators, but it doesn't seem to be enough. We're close to 3000 questions, and even with using all daily votes (30) we can vote only 1/100 as important.

I also see that very often votes are spreading among closely related posts, leaving less votes for each (but looking at the sum, giving a lot of votes to the subject) So to speak, the subject is actually seen very important by the members, but it's left out from the most voted questions list because of the spreading. A good example of this can be seen with a search for questions with bug + email tags. There are 73 questions (but not 73 bugs!), gathering about 500 votes together - but when looking at the votes for a single question, it's unlikely getting a roadmap tag soon. Members, we have a problem, partially caused by ourselves.

The question here is: Is there something more that we can do than try to clean up?

To begin with, my suggestion is to add a line like this to the help page:

• "Before posting your first question, please go through the guidelines posted here"

(The help page is already suggested to our new members, when they join the community)

The amount of closely related posts is growing fast - some active cleaning is been done both by both users and moderators, but it doesn't seem to be enough. We're close to 3000 questions, and even with using all daily votes (30) we can vote only 1/100 as important.

I also see that very often votes are spreading among closely related posts, leaving less votes for each (but looking at the sum, giving a lot of votes to the subject) So to speak, the subject is actually seen very important by the members, but it's left out from the most voted questions list because of the spreading. A good example of this can be seen with a search for questions with bug + email tags. There are 73 questions (but not 73 bugs!), gathering about 500 votes together - but when looking at the votes for a single question, it's unlikely getting a roadmap tag soon. Members, we have a problem, partially caused by ourselves.

The question here is: Is there something more that we can do than try to clean up?

To begin with, my suggestion is to add a line like this to the help page:

• "Before posting your first question, please go through the guidelines posted here"

(The help page is already suggested to our new members, when they join the community)

The amount of closely related posts is growing fast - some active cleaning is been done both by both users and moderators, but it doesn't seem to be enough. We're close to 3000 questions, and even with using all daily votes (30) we can vote only 1/100 as important.

I also see It seems that very often votes are spreading among closely related posts, leaving less votes for each (but looking at the sum, giving a lot of votes to the subject) So to speak, the subject is actually seen very important by the members, but it's left out from the most voted questions list because of the spreading. A good example of this can be seen with a search for questions with bug + email tags. There are 73 questions (but not 73 bugs!), gathering about 500 votes together - but when looking at the votes for a single question, it's unlikely getting a roadmap tag soon. Members, we have a problem, partially caused by ourselves.

The question here is: Is there something more that we can do than try to clean up?

To begin with, my suggestion is to add a line like this to the help page:

• "Before posting your first question, please go through the guidelines posted here"

(The help page is already suggested to our new members, when they join the community)

The amount of closely related posts is growing fast - some active cleaning is been done both by users and moderators, but it doesn't seem to be enough. We're close to 3000 questions, and even with using all daily votes (30) we can vote only 1/100 as important.

It seems that very often votes are spreading among closely related posts, leaving less votes for each (but looking at the sum, giving a lot of votes to the subject) So to speak, the subject is actually seen very important by the members, but it's left out from the most voted questions list because of the spreading. A good example of this can be seen with a search for questions with bug + email tags. There are 73 questions (but not 73 bugs!), gathering about 500 votes together - but when looking at the votes for a single question, it's unlikely getting a roadmap tag soon. Members, we have a problem, partially caused by ourselves.

The question here is: Is there something more that we can do than try to clean up?

To begin with, my suggestion is to add a line like this to the help page:

• "Before posting your first question, please go through the guidelines posted here"

(The help page is already suggested to our new members, when they join the community)

The amount of closely related posts is growing fast - some active cleaning is been done both by users and moderators, but it doesn't seem to be enough. We're close to 3000 questions, and even with using all daily votes (30) we can vote only 1/100 as important.

It seems that very often votes are spreading among closely related posts, leaving less votes for each (but looking at the sum, giving a lot of votes to the subject) So to speak, the subject is actually seen very important by the members, but it's left out from the most voted questions list because of the spreading. A good example of this can be seen with a search for questions with bug + email tags. There are 73 questions (but not 73 bugs!), gathering about 500 votes together - but when looking at the votes for a single question, it's unlikely getting a roadmap tag soon. Members, we have a problem, partially caused by ourselves.