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Sorry that I've been inactive for awhile but I've been going through the unanswered questions. I started noticing a pattern. A lot of the unanswered questions are only two to three sentences long and are usually from a new user below 200 points. Would there be someway to try to limit these by either setting a minimum length to a question or a threshold for inactivity on user account below 200. Many times there is no response after the first question. Like I've said it's been awhile so do these get purged eventually?

Obviously we wouldn't want to discourage new users but I feel a lack of answers to their question is probably just as discouraging as having to do a few extra steps to post a question. Also I feel these weak questions as I call them lead to more bad questions or from people not investing in this site.

Let's read some thoughts on the matter.

Examples: High rated user two sentence question. http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11935/why-does-he-kidnap-womenhttps://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11935/why-does-he-kidnap-women

This one shows what I'm talking about a bit better. It's not a bad question but it's one sentence and kind of leads to a yes no answer. Where did all the furniture that was in the villa come from?Where did all the furniture that was in the villa come from?

http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16300/why-was-the-politicians-daughter-at-the-restauranthttps://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16300/why-was-the-politicians-daughter-at-the-restaurant

Sorry that I've been inactive for awhile but I've been going through the unanswered questions. I started noticing a pattern. A lot of the unanswered questions are only two to three sentences long and are usually from a new user below 200 points. Would there be someway to try to limit these by either setting a minimum length to a question or a threshold for inactivity on user account below 200. Many times there is no response after the first question. Like I've said it's been awhile so do these get purged eventually?

Obviously we wouldn't want to discourage new users but I feel a lack of answers to their question is probably just as discouraging as having to do a few extra steps to post a question. Also I feel these weak questions as I call them lead to more bad questions or from people not investing in this site.

Let's read some thoughts on the matter.

Examples: High rated user two sentence question. http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11935/why-does-he-kidnap-women

This one shows what I'm talking about a bit better. It's not a bad question but it's one sentence and kind of leads to a yes no answer. Where did all the furniture that was in the villa come from?

http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16300/why-was-the-politicians-daughter-at-the-restaurant

Sorry that I've been inactive for awhile but I've been going through the unanswered questions. I started noticing a pattern. A lot of the unanswered questions are only two to three sentences long and are usually from a new user below 200 points. Would there be someway to try to limit these by either setting a minimum length to a question or a threshold for inactivity on user account below 200. Many times there is no response after the first question. Like I've said it's been awhile so do these get purged eventually?

Obviously we wouldn't want to discourage new users but I feel a lack of answers to their question is probably just as discouraging as having to do a few extra steps to post a question. Also I feel these weak questions as I call them lead to more bad questions or from people not investing in this site.

Let's read some thoughts on the matter.

Examples: High rated user two sentence question. https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11935/why-does-he-kidnap-women

This one shows what I'm talking about a bit better. It's not a bad question but it's one sentence and kind of leads to a yes no answer. Where did all the furniture that was in the villa come from?

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16300/why-was-the-politicians-daughter-at-the-restaurant

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Sorry that I've been inactive for awhile but I've been going through the unanswered questions. I started noticing a pattern. A lot of the unanswered questions are only two to three sentences long and are usually from a new user below 200 points. Would there be someway to try to limit these by either setting a minimum length to a question or a threshold for inactivity on user account below 200. Many times there is no response after the first question. Like I've said it's been awhile so do these get purged eventually?

Obviously we wouldn't want to discourage new users but I feel a lack of answers to their question is probably just as discouraging as having to do a few extra steps to post a question. Also I feel these weak questions as I call them lead to more bad questions or from people not investing in this site.

Let's read some thoughts on the matter.

Examples: High rated user two sentence question. http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11935/why-does-he-kidnap-women

This one shows what I'm talking about a bit better. It's not a bad question but it's one sentence and kind of leads to a yes no answer. Where did all the furniture that was in the villa come from?

http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16300/why-was-the-politicians-daughter-at-the-restaurant

Sorry that I've been inactive for awhile but I've been going through the unanswered questions. I started noticing a pattern. A lot of the unanswered questions are only two to three sentences long and are usually from a new user below 200 points. Would there be someway to try to limit these by either setting a minimum length to a question or a threshold for inactivity on user account below 200. Many times there is no response after the first question. Like I've said it's been awhile so do these get purged eventually?

Obviously we wouldn't want to discourage new users but I feel a lack of answers to their question is probably just as discouraging as having to do a few extra steps to post a question. Also I feel these weak questions as I call them lead to more bad questions or from people not investing in this site.

Let's read some thoughts on the matter.

Sorry that I've been inactive for awhile but I've been going through the unanswered questions. I started noticing a pattern. A lot of the unanswered questions are only two to three sentences long and are usually from a new user below 200 points. Would there be someway to try to limit these by either setting a minimum length to a question or a threshold for inactivity on user account below 200. Many times there is no response after the first question. Like I've said it's been awhile so do these get purged eventually?

Obviously we wouldn't want to discourage new users but I feel a lack of answers to their question is probably just as discouraging as having to do a few extra steps to post a question. Also I feel these weak questions as I call them lead to more bad questions or from people not investing in this site.

Let's read some thoughts on the matter.

Examples: High rated user two sentence question. http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11935/why-does-he-kidnap-women

This one shows what I'm talking about a bit better. It's not a bad question but it's one sentence and kind of leads to a yes no answer. Where did all the furniture that was in the villa come from?

http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16300/why-was-the-politicians-daughter-at-the-restaurant

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