Thanks. You've got to love the cluelessness of such a worthwhile Q&A being marked "not constructive" by the stack exchange moderators.
Let me in as soon as anyone of you smart guys has an mvp of a stack exchange (or just stackoverflow.com-) replacement.
I mean, whoever does this might have to hire their own dang-like supermod but I refuse to accept that what we see today is the only option.
Some ideas:
* don't make bureaucratic powers a reward
* when the map and the terrain doesn't match the terrain is usually correct. When the time after time you find that the most useful questions are closed as not constructive then maybe the rules for "not constructive" needs to change.
* from other forums: encourage newcomers to use nicks that don't identify them at least until they get a feel for it
This kind of thing definitely turns me off stack-exchange sites -- especially I find that the sites aside from stack-overflow (which has a larger and perhaps more responsive user-base) are prone to terrible over-moderation and as well as very selective moderation.