There has been quite an abuse of using posts for advertisements and cheap things.
I often see things like "I made some new code today", Thank you's, and extremely short answers.(10 to 20 words)
Particularely the posts that annoy me the most are ones that say "Thank you", "Good question. I hope an answer pops up", "This question is good", etc.

People that decide to post such things should be docked somewhere around 15 XP and then the post should not even show up.

It's just an abuse of a resourceful area.
If people really want to do this, I say go somewhere else.
But then that's just MY opinion! :-)

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