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There were a few contributing factors to me stopping, but probably the biggest was a combination of frustration and ineffectiveness. In any given session I would end up with a small handful of cards that for whatever reason just wouldn't go in. It'd present one to me, I'd 'fess up that I didn't get it right, and then it would wait just long enough for me to forget it before presenting it again.
There didn't seem to be any "honest" procedure for going "look, dude, I'm clearly not going to get these ones today, so stop showing them to me."
How about just suspending/deleting them? Or setting a half-hour aside to just rewrite those cards to make them much easier? (shorter answers, cues in the question, cloze deletion, break them into several cards...)
They tended to be cards whose answers were either date ranges in periods of history I'm not familiar with, or in languages I don't have significant exposure to. Essentially material I didn't have any kind of infrastructure to pin the facts on.
Generally, though, if I'd go and read up on the area to develop that infrastructure, I wouldn't need Anki.