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How to encourage people to use linebreaks and periods?

I wonder why people do not use line breaks and periods. I see many long paragraphs and sentences using commas. Some posts are really hard to follow and require (lots of/some) post-editing to ...
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Let's improve Stack Overflow's "Ask a Question" page!

We've all heard and done our fair share of complaining about declining question quality. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Various ideas have been floated, but haven't gotten significant traction for various ...
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Would using honeypot tags to trigger a warning be effective in raising question quality?

Would using fake "Honeypot" tags to warn/inform the user when added improve question quality? As an example of how I see this working: create an expert-advice-needed tag (and others) ...
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Number of new accounts that have their first question closed shortly after account creation?

In the Tavern, the topic of post quality came up recently. One of the ideas thrown out was to delay the ability of newly registered users from posting immediately - perhaps a 30 minute delay to '...
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Would asking a question at a reputation cost help improve quality / durability for SO?

In my opinion, a lot of questions (probably because of the massive amount of them) don't really get the attention they deserve: A lot of them don't get answered at all. Questions deserving to be ...
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