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Re:StackOverflow modding itself out of existence by JamesBarney on Saturday July 11, 2015 @12:01PM (#9870245)
The problem is there is an incredible amount of overlap between "too broad" and "extremely useful to large number of people".
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Re:StackOverflow modding itself out of existence by jonahx on Saturday July 11, 2015 @12:50PM (#9870481)
Prioritizing the latter over the former solves a large part of SO's overmodding problems.
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Re:StackOverflow modding itself out of existence by rancur on Saturday July 11, 2015 @01:52PM (#9870816)
I am now coining the nickname 'ModOverflow'. tell your friends!
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Re:StackOverflow modding itself out of existence by rancur on Saturday July 11, 2015 @01:51PM (#9870814)
> useful

reminds me of accurate wikipedia articles closing or being removed because wikipedia was trying to be an encyclopedia, instead of the first source for information on anything and everything you want to know about

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