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Are these fields redundant?

Comments have only score. So this way comments,answers and questions can have the same field name. Of course a score and downvote_count would still decrease redundancy. btw. the fact that the API has …
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Abuse potential in API write-access?

limiting write-based per-day API access like the following way: api-write-requests-per-day = floor(reputation/some_constant) Btw. I don't think a 10k+ user would abuse the site from the API, althou …
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What does min and max mean when sort is "activity" or "hot"?

Does they mean anything actually? There was an "issue" when you needed to add min=0 to queries to actually get the answers instead of nothing. Just checked that this is not the case anymore, but was w …
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API having more rights than a 0 rep user.

Checking the reputation rights list it seems that the reduced advertising (well, technically the API could have put ad links into the result) is the only thing besides the updown count where the API i …
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API having more rights than a 0 rep user.

The fact that the API has total_upvotes and total_downvotes makes the fact that you need 1000 rep on the sites a bit weird. Are there more things that the API knows by default, which you can only acqu …
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