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You can pretty much go to any page and find at least one answer/question made by a person with 1 reputation and no badges. Examples:

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I'm not saying they're bad, a lot of the questions are good. I"m just curious if there's some glitch resetting (or showing) 1 reputation. Because I think it may be a bug, I'm tagging bug.

I found all of these posts on the front page.

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  • Well, can't you open their profiles and see if it's realistic? How many answers did they give? How many upvotes did they receive?
    – Oliver Salzburg Mod
    Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 19:52
  • That's not a bug, but a feature
    – Ivo Flipse Mod
    Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 19:56
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    Some public analytics data. Trend goes up. New users arrive all the time.
    – Daniel Beck Mod
    Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:00
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    Woohoo, show some love for the /review/first-answers queue. </advertising>
    – slhck Mod
    Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:03
  • @slhck you need to fire your PR person, that is the coolest feature ever, never heard of it before now.
    – Scott Chamberlain
    Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 13:20

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That's not a bug, but a feature. We get an average of 200 new users a day and 160 questions/day.

Its to be expected that a large portion of them will be asking questions. Couple that with the fact that 90+% of our traffic comes through Google, that means its actually very unlikely a question is being asked by an existing user.

So no its definitely not a bug. We're here to help people, whether they are new or not. They only thing to worry about is the quality of the questions

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  • Well said, I was just putting it here to make sure nothing was wrong.
    – Jon
    Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:15

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