This is a rant that's needed and one that SO needs to open themselves to receiving. Their stance on this is just wrong.

I'd actually bookmarked several of your posts (among others) because they were so valuable. So it enrages me to no end to click those bookmarks and find that the entire discussion is simply gone.

To recap - a high quality contribution whose value was validated by dozens of individuals (or perhaps even more) was simply deleted.

The problem starts at the top. As you can see from Jeff Atwood's post below (codinghorror) , even the founders of Stack Overflow don't understand the value of their own platform to their customers. They had a preconceived notion of what StackOverflow Is and they are going to stick to it, users be damned.

I don't mean the bash them, but if nerds want to see a prime example of why they take orders from non-nerds (whom we like to think of as "less intelligent" than us), this is exhibit "A". And if you want to know why StackExchange will fail everywhere else, this is exhibit "A". No other group of users will put up with that crap.