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Re:Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In by polynomial on Sunday September 09, 2012 @09:31PM (#4497836)
> "Editors are the bureaucrats of the StackOverflow ecosystem. The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy [3]. "

So, SO is turning into Wikipedia…?

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Re:Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In by Legion on Monday September 10, 2012 @03:15AM (#4498687)
Someone like that, except imagine that half the pages you end up landing on from Google searches are "marked for deletion".

Literally over 50% of the SO pages I end up on are closed questions. If I'm lucky, some kind soul got off a good buzzer-beater answer before the Content Police showed up.

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