Looks like I already won my bet that someone on HN was going to bitch and moan about closed questions again.
Surely you can make a good case for it on meta.stackoverflow.com?
Surely you can make a good case for it on meta.stackoverflow.com?
Interestingly, this HN submission is illustrating the original reason Jeff Atwood locked the post in 2009 - nobody can be bothered to even read the first page before posting their own joke.
Yes, it's locked too, and it too was deleted for a year or so before the current crop of moderators undeleted and locked it.
If they don't get those mods on a leash pretty soon, someone else will come along and drink their milkshake and I won't have to do anything.
In other words, the site is not interesting to you, yet you choose to rant about it; very strange. Does the very existence of StackOverflow bother you?
(There are other sites on the Internet, y'know. It's not like SO is preventing you from visiting /r/ProgrammerJokes instead.)
Other than that, great point.
"Does the very existence of StackOverflow bother you?"
No, but the existence of abusive moderators does.
When I run across locked threads on SO, I'm not searching for "jokes". These are actual programming-related questions.
Please don't imply that I said things that I didn't. Thanks.
If you're unhappy about a question being closed (the community can and does make mistakes) then bring it up on meta-SO. If the question was closed by mistake then more often than not it'll be re-opened if you explain why.