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Why would you provide an implementation with noscript tags? only 0.01% of your users will probably be affected. These are the users who never click or view ads anyway, why spent time for them while you could implement more important features?

>Is there really any reason why a questions/answer site with voting can't provide noscript tags?

Because making two versions of the site is twice as much work?

It's an ajax site that uses static html/js for speed, i.e. there are no .aspx .jsp pages to generate dynamic html on the server. If this were a real app there would be.