Control issues never struck me as significant, either on SO or Area51, and I have trouble buying the argument that correcting typos and merging similar sites ar

Control issues never struck me as significant, either on SO or Area51, and I have trouble buying the argument that correcting typos and merging similar sites are unnecessary and evidence that Jeff,Joel, and the site's users are control freaks. On the other hand, I'm surprised he didn't bring up the Community Wiki police. The most common thing I hear about SO lately is along the lines that all the questions worth asking have been asked, or are esoteric enough that the quality/quantity of answers is low, and few points are given - if anything kills those sites, I'd imagine that'd be it. There seems to be a diminishing ROI for time spent on the site, and scores seem to be fairly biased toward those who spent time on the site early on. Maybe other subjects won't have this issue.