And half the garbage is from people "moderating"! You are literally rewarded points for doing moderating activities, so of course every post is flooded with BS edits, votes to close, etc.. Cobra effect and whatnot.

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shagie 3 days ago | parent [-]

What points do you get for moderation activity?

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causal 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

You get points for suggesting edits and badges for completing review activities (votes to close, triage, etc). I thought you got points for the latter as well but looks like that's not the case.

	▲	shagie 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> You get points for suggesting edits ... Up to 2000 points. When you get to 2000 points, your edits are no longer suggestions and you don't get any additional points for it. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/268479/why-dont-you... --- This is a common misperception about moderation on Stack Overflow. You'll often see people claim that people get rep for doing moderation tasks. And some people do pursue badges... though the gold review badge (1000 reviews) has only been awarded 47 times on Stack Overflow ( https://meta.stackoverflow.com/help/badges/81/steward ) ... and silver (250 reviews) 65 times ( https://meta.stackoverflow.com/help/badges/78/reviewer). ... so I would find it difficult to accept that badges are things that motivate people. If anything, a story of new people doing community moderation could be told in https://meta.stackoverflow.com/help/badges/80/custodian (it has been several months since a person has done a review for the first time).

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sevenseacat 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

None, we found the leeches