It is a bizarre system, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised about the community it shaped. The ways to get points combined with the way moderation powers slow

It is a bizarre system, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised about the community it shaped. The ways to get points combined with the way moderation powers slowly flow from them in this gamified rigid hierarchy is not a common approach. Only allowing a specific type of social interaction (objective questions whose answer(s) are of interest to many). It is weird. I think it is really interesting that the community isn't much worse. At that scale and, lets be honest, with programmers giving programming advice? Why is that? Which of those aspects can be borrowed for other stuff?