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Wikipedia has many similar problems to stack overflow and other different problems. The sites take different approaches to moderation yet “power users” on both feel like they are fighting back a torrent of low quality content. Wikipedia has the advantage of being run by a charity that is not trying to turn a profit.

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Are you saying "feel like" because you don't believe that to be the case?

I thought it made sense from the context -- the moderators on both platforms have that feeling.

I could say "I feel like I spent all day doing code reviews," meaning that I probably did other things too, but the volume of code reviews was draining, so the small amount of other things that I did were less noticable.

Using "feel like" in that context is accompanying the hyperbole that follows. The mods aren't literally fighting a torrent of spam/bad content, but there probably is a lot of it, so it "feels" more extreme

Just asked because it was ambiguous to me, thanks for clarifying.

Never know when someone may not be a native English speaker, thought that might have been possible to get stuck on haha.

often when someone says "feel like" they mean "think that" - ie its not feelings per se.

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