Stack Overflow Moderation

Sorry to hear that. But really StackOverFlow is place for people to share, ask and answer questions. I think this is mainly a problem of StackOverFlow itself. Amateur admins can do whatever they want to the community. If no more StackOverFlow, where can we ask/answer/search materials?

StackOverflow is intended to be a repository of good questions and answers, rather than a service of helping people solve their problems. The latter is at most a secondary function - though an important one. The point is, the questions and answers must be edited and up/downvoted to serve future visitors wondering about the, more than to help out the person who originally asked the question.

StackOverflow seems to think that these types of questions cause the community to sink to a lower level of discourse. I'd be inclined to disagree, except that the quality of responses their remains the highest I've seen on the internet. So, they appear to know what they are doing.Quora is happy to host this type of question. Quora responses aren't usually as well-informed as SO responses... but I don't find that a compelling argument for SO to allow these questions.

A couple of points (from a top 0.47% user, but that's not why I'm on SO):* imagine googling for a programming questions and be stuck in 2008 - I don't want to go back* imagine researching a wittgenstein paper - do you need philosophy.stackexchange.com - probably not; the numbers show, that SO's still the metrics vanguard - I think the demand for the niche sites is certainly there, but large communities have formed around traditional forum sites - and people are happy with that - so there i

The history of questions is why StackOverflow is so great. If it were like a normal forum with only time sensitive content it would have gone away like all other technical forums.Your question is shared with all the future people who have the same problem, it isn't your soapbox to complain in. Your experience with SO is probably fairly minor, the moderators have each had to deal with at least a half dozen people breaking questions to suit their own benefits, it gets tiring quickly.

> After a while, I stopped having to post questions about "common frameworks", either because I could do with the official docs of because there was already a StackOverflow answer for my question.Good. That's the site working as designed and intended.> What was becoming more common was that I would have a question similar to an existing unanswered one.Then you should improve the existing unanswered question instead, and/or draw attention to

As others have said, the first objective of stackoverflow was to destroy expertexchange, which it has succeeded admirably at. Finding answers through search engines is now far easier.I've posted very rarely on the software stackexchange, but I've been very active on the electronics stackexchange to the extent that I'm in the top 2% and rank #28. It has very aggressive moderation of 'bad' questions, and I sometimes wish there was somewhere chattier and less fuss

Over the years, I have spent a fair bit of time on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites (at the moment, 816 answers and 70 questions, across the sites), in many of the sites from their early days. What I find happening on multiple sites, repeatedly, is similar to what I've seen on many other online communities like Wikipedia etc:1. It starts as a community of people eager to share their knowledge, help people, etc.2. Initially, the small community of users scours every (or a

Stack Overflow is not actually a Q&A site. It is a repository. It is designed so that if you search for a question, you find a good question with one or more good answers. In order to perform this mission, duplicates are removed and a baseline quality is expected.SO has been around for a long time. The likelihood that you have run into a new issue is quite low at this point. The biggest downvote avalanches come from people trying to close the many, many duplicates posted by people who don

What kind of jerk has his question answered by the Stackoverflow community, then insist it be pulled so others don't benefit?