Well I've never been in favor of banning questions, that's a bit like banning thinking, or culling all but "proper thoughts/speech".

Descartes: question everything
Socrates: call everything into question
"Question everything; keep what is good" (1 Thes. 5.21)

My

My ignore list has forum cruft covered mostly.

For all others. I will just point them to members choice awards if their question contains no details.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ce-awards-128/

I wish I could change the title of this thread.
I don't mean to ban people starting "best of" threads, but:
Here's another recent example:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ne-4175667050/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ro-4175667049/

I see a regularly recurring pattern here:
- new user
- opens several "best of" or "please recommend" threads in parallel
- little or no clarification/information/replies by OP

For me the signal-to-noise ratio is appallingly low in those threads.
Like I said, a rule miight not help much but at least it's something to point new users to (and some do read the rules before posting).

Of course many long-timers apparently enjoy answering those ever-same questions again and again...

I reported that bot.

There is even a long-standing joke about that:
That is the power of Linux (and one of the reasons there are so many different distributions): there just are so many ways in Linux (and Unix) to get things done.

I'm really, really angry, but I'm not going to admit it...

You might like some of these jokes... I did

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=19993#p25530
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=19993#p27016
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=19993#p27201

Yes, it was easily spotted. When I see user names of that sort coupled with very generic questions I usually do a quick search - and that bot returned numerous hits - but it's not easy to find any posts from it as most have already been removed. It is/was registered to all manner of unrelated web forums.

^ I always wonder what the point, or the motivation, could be?
There's no spam links anywhere.
Not even trolling.
Sometimes - rarely - they come back later and edit in spam links. But so much effort to get such an infinitesimally small increase in SEO!