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If this were actually a problem, they could circumvent this restriction by simply registering many accounts. A better solution -- as others have pointed out in the past -- would be a karma threshold for posting articles, but since it's not a problem yet, why bother?

If you think your website is "worth enough", you can make it a paysite and raise the barrier very much: see Metafilter (which has a 1 post/day hard limit, except for the owner)

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