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In my experience SO has canonical answers for ~95% of all issues already. Sure, it will tick on as new things happen but that will be almost noise with whats al
by ageofwant 7y ago
In my experience SO has canonical answers for ~95% of all issues already. Sure, it will tick on as new things happen but that will be almost noise with whats already there.
I think this reality is not lost on the owners. Mods have volunteered millions of hours of free labor to get SO to where it is today. And now that the corpus is in place their usefulness has come to an end. They are now less of an asset and more a liability to SO corporation.
That's how it looks like from the outside anyway.
- joatmon-snoo 7y agoEhhhhh. One of the challenges SO - at least the ones related to code and Linux - have clearly been dealing with over the past few years is that as time passes, the answers to a question change, e g. today it is vastly more common to use systemd for things, and the commands to run (systemctl, journalctl) reflect that.
- oezi 7y agoThe role of the mods vs. the role of the user is a big question mark to me. In which question has a moderator helped in a relevant sense? For me they always have just been gatekeeping (tags, close votes) which never made sense to me.
- jacobush 7y agoIf the mods stopped you would notice. Flamewars, edit wars etc, are kept at bay.
- MauranKilom 7y agoTags and close votes are handled by normal users (well, those with a bit of rep). Moderators are for the "people stuff" like spam, vandalism, vote fraud, rudeness/harassment and so on. They do not significantly contribute to question closure or tagging.