While it address the situation on stack overflow, this is a problem in general with communities: -It's my opinion that with enough time communities are d

While it address the situation on stack overflow, this is a problem in general with communities: -It's my opinion that with enough time communities are driven and shaped by the leaders this has at least the following two aspects -The leaders (assuming they were elected or emerged from the community) will strength the core values of the community (look at it as the identity). -Previous statement can also be read as: they will make everything they can from prevent the community to become something they don't like How do you prevent people with strong insert here characteristic or property, e.g. technical background and therefore after some time taking leadership from driving the community that way? On the other hand (and I speak for myself here) when I started learning programming I were extremely frustrated with my first Java class for a desktop application, you copy paste something, modify it and then got into a situation where you ask for help. Years later I did understand all the reasons why my approach was incorrect: -you can place logic inside the class or outside of it -You later learn that code should not repeat itself something called *one source of truth*, how that drives code from instances to the parents from where it its inherit -you later learn or discover that; that's the same principle behind normalization on databases -then you learn that behavior respects the same rules and hence interfaces and contracts -then you can understand easily mef and maf for example -.... for that basic point above I would have need to be told to read and learn about a lot of things, if you get to the other side, the simple question becomes a really long explanation and tutorship about something. Maybe this exemplifies and proves the necessity that can be addressed by a new community, Ask and learn community with rules looking forward to address this kind of learning.