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Re:How Quora died by jonathanyc on Saturday February 03, 2024 @07:51PM (#39246375)
A StackOverflow question I asked 13 years ago (and which someone else answered 13 years ago!) was deleted just last month for being off-topic.

All the mods’ accounts were years younger than both the question and answer. Even weirder, the mod who initiated the deletion first tried to answer the question. He only voted to delete it after I commented that the question already had had an accepted answer for 13 years.

Re:How Quora died by Aeolun on Saturday February 03, 2024 @08:10PM (#39246501)
There should be something you can do about such blatantly misaligned incentives…
Re:How Quora died by musicale on Sunday February 04, 2024 @02:56AM (#39248467)
StackOverflow seems to have perverse incentives for bad moderation.

Fortunately it's so terrible I was easily dissuaded from ever answering anything.