Taverners tend to be Feeders: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/…

Though some dropped out...

The good old days, yeah.

Back when there was hope that SO community moderation could be repaired with some machine learning or new queues.

The Triage/HIQ project did have some significant dev effort. And failed nonetheless.

What use is homepage, other than for showing "this is what the site is about" to new users?

For the latter (demo purpose) it could be much more easily fixed by filtering on score >= 2.

Much less sophisticated than ML, but a bot that downvotes questions based on reasonable heuristics could be useful. Starting with unformatted code.

Then look at the length of post relative to keywords such as anybody|anyone|someone, please|stuck|trouble, doesn't work, etc. Add capitalization, im|dont|cant, and lack of paragraphs.

Nick Craver is somewhat animated in this video, is he on a treadmill there?

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