Ask anything optimization or performance related and you get a string of "premature optimization", "let the compiler to it", or "use this library" comments. On

Ask anything optimization or performance related and you get a string of "premature optimization", "let the compiler to it", or "use this library" comments. One of SO's biggest problems is the mod thinking they know better than the people asking and over-aggressively closing things down. And given a number of ways to ask the same question, they will often get closed down in not in the exact right form: - How do I do X in my programming language? - Is there a library to do X in my programming language? - What is the best library to do X in my programming language? While the three questions are slightly different, they will result in about the same answers. I see no reason to close any of them down since they all imply each other. Or the huge issues with decade old answers still coming up when they no longer apply to recent software versions. Once seeing an interesting Java question answered by Gosling himself, I made a suggestion on Meta to highlight answers by notable people. I thought it would be very interesting. Wow! Was ever a bad idea. Meta is even worse and nastier than SO regular. It seemed like the mods were fighting to be the biggest on the site and didn't want anybody to outshine them. Joel doesn't seem to want to understand the SO has large problems for many user types, and it needs more than just a little lipstick.