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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by wpietri on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:53PM (#21067457)
Yeah, definitely. A bunch of thoroughly dickish moderation persuaded me to never contribute content again. And honestly, I'm done doing free labor for for-profit companies. I'll still edit Wikipedia despite all its issues, as it's all for the public good. But anybody after "hyper growth" can pay me for my labor.
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by dmix on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:50AM (#21067699)
Was this a moderator for a particular tag or one that oversees answers in general? How does it favour vanity metrics over value? Aren't the best answers chosen by the end users?

I'm genuinely curious, I'm not familiar with SO besides having answered a few top questions and getting some points long ago.

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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by DocTomoe on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:46AM (#21068347)
A good answer cannot be chosen by an end user if they do not get to see it because Mod-without-a-life deleted it 15 seconds after it was written.
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