My main issue with SO is that it has become a rather "snippy" place.
It's also true of other Stack Exchange sites. Sometimes you feel like in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy where you're sent from one site to the other and none of them think it's their job to deal with a question.
And I don't mean the low-effort questions, but well written interesting ones that are deemed to broad, too opinion-based, too whatever.
There is definitely an effect of territorialism, big egos and rule lawyering going on. As if people were playing a game of spot-the-broken-rule as some intellectual puzzle and going "heureka, there it is, you broke Rule No. 3, gotcha!!". Sites like SO and Wikipedia certainly attract people who get emotionally invested in this role and see themselves as powerful and enjoy feeling better than others.
That's why the debate is complicated. There is a problem with trigger happy moderation, but also with low-effort content.
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It's also true of other Stack Exchange sites. Sometimes you feel like in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy where you're sent from one site to the other and none of them think it's their job to deal with a question.
And I don't mean the low-effort questions, but well written interesting ones that are deemed to broad, too opinion-based, too whatever.
There is definitely an effect of territorialism, big egos and rule lawyering going on. As if people were playing a game of spot-the-broken-rule as some intellectual puzzle and going "heureka, there it is, you broke Rule No. 3, gotcha!!". Sites like SO and Wikipedia certainly attract people who get emotionally invested in this role and see themselves as powerful and enjoy feeling better than others.
That's why the debate is complicated. There is a problem with trigger happy moderation, but also with low-effort content.