Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow
by Marcus316 on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @01:14PM
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Please note, closed questions can also be removed from the site.
I have a single Gold Badge in the SO world. It was awarded for an answer that I gave which earned more than 100 up votes[1]. Sadly the question to which I responded has since been closed (for years now). When content that I worked hard to create suddenly disappears from the site because moderators deem it to be "not a good fit", you start to feel it's not worth your time ...
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/25/great-answer?userid=...
Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow
by Guvante on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @03:19PM
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Took me a minute to realize what you were talking about as I have mod powers and could see the post just fine (finally clicked everything was red).
They outgrew the initial laissez-faire model and needed to grow beyond it. However I heartily agree they didn't do the best at making that transition.
Your question is shared with all the future people who have the same problem, it isn't your soapbox to complain in. Your experience with SO is probably fairly minor, the moderators have each had to deal with at least a half dozen people breaking questions to suit their own benefits, it gets tiring quickly.