>Stackoverflow mods and power users being arseholes reduces the use of Stackoverflow
While they are certainly not perfect, they willingly spend their own spare time to help other peoples for free. I disagree with calling them arseholes.
While they are certainly not perfect, they willingly spend their own spare time to help other peoples for free. I disagree with calling them arseholes.
The problems are two-fold:
1. Any community with volunteer moderators attracts the kind of people you don't want to be moderators. They enjoy rigidly enforcing the rules even if it makes no sense.
2. There are two ways to find questions and answer them: random new questions from the review queue, and from Google when you're searching for a problem you have. SO encourages the former, and unfortunately the vast majority of questions are awful. If you go and review questions like this you will go "downvote close, downvote close, downvote close". You're going to correctly close a load of trash questions that nobody cares about and a load of good questions you just don't understand.
I've started recording a list of questions I've asked that get idiotic downvotes or closed, so I can write a proper rant about it with concrete examples. Otherwise you get people dismissing the problem as imaginary.
These mods now hold SO hostage. SO is definitely aware of the problem but they can't instigate proper changes to fix it because the mods like this situation and they revolt if SO tries to remedy it.