I started contributing to the Literature Stack Exchange when it launched last year - which quickly became not fun. Most of the decent questions were closed as off topic, answer quality declined because the remaining questions were too narrow, new users were put off by the attitude of mods.
It was explained to me, in detail, that this was to preserve the focus and quality of the site.
So I left. It says a lot that 6 months later I am still the #6 user by all-time karma.
The few trickle of questions they have left deal mostly with trivia.
I think SO/SE's moderation policy has gone a step too far. Once it lightly highlighted quality. Now it stamps on most questions.
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I started contributing to the Literature Stack Exchange when it launched last year - which quickly became not fun. Most of the decent questions were closed as off topic, answer quality declined because the remaining questions were too narrow, new users were put off by the attitude of mods.
It was explained to me, in detail, that this was to preserve the focus and quality of the site.
So I left. It says a lot that 6 months later I am still the #6 user by all-time karma.
The few trickle of questions they have left deal mostly with trivia.
I think SO/SE's moderation policy has gone a step too far. Once it lightly highlighted quality. Now it stamps on most questions.
I think there may be a space for a friendlier version of Stack Exchange.