I'm afraid you missed the point of the question. It's not "why it's still 50", it's "Why it was 50 to begin with?" (and most likely OP expecting staff only answers) — Shadow Wizard10 hours ago
@Shadow Just to be absolutely clear here, the purpose of my question is NOT "why was it 50 to begin with". Rather, I'm asking why the decision was made to keep the limit as is rather than modify it. Either they just didn't bother with it, or they made a careful study based on data long after 2008 and decided it was best to keep the status quo.
I want an answer from staff that either simply states it was the former, or if the latter, discloses at least some useful information from their study. (cc @JourneymanGeek)
@Undo They could have printed a neon warning label on every single page that the CoC doesn't change rule enforcement and people would still say it does.
@Shadow Imagine replacing all instances of 50 in the FAQ to 75. Will it still make sense (other than the mere fact that it mismatches system behavior)? Yes. Now, replace it with 25, or 100. Will it still make sense? Yes.
It's not a duplicate because it doesn't explain why the number has to be 50.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog by editing the faq question to include it, and well you already pinged Shog about it, so if he want to reply, he'll see it closed as dupe and he can edit his official response in the faq answer, or reopen your question and post the answer there.
It can also be reopened by others, I'm only one person, and others might agree with you and disagree with me, all good.
@JourneymanGeek oh, you missed all the fun.. he trolled MSE big time with useless rants, got several of those nuked as Rude/Abusive, and later network suspension since he already did all of this before, on other sites as well. Still, I don't think flagging "lol" in chat was justified, but... meh.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I suspect you wont get an answer besides "It was arbitrarily decided to work that way and it's worked fine so far so nobody has touched it
I want an answer from staff that either simply states it was the former, or if the latter, discloses at least some useful information from their study. (cc @JourneymanGeek)
@JourneymanGeek Once again, I'm not asking why the number was set in the first place. I'm asking why was it kept. Either they didn't bother to change it, or did some research and decided to keep the status quo. If the former, they should answer stating so. If the latter, they should disclose their research.