What's the point of restricting the frequency with which a game question can be asked?

Apparently, when a game question goes long, it can only be restarted once in a month.

What’s the logic behind this? It’s not like the (Social) front page would get swamped if a popular question is asked every few days. Also, as was said in the same thread, it’s probably bad for the servers to have this restriction. So, mods, what’s the point?

Mere mortals Fellow Jellies, what are your thoughts? To be honest, this feels a bit too paternalistic, like we can only play after doing our homework.