I think they've made a lot of progress with the "be nice" thing. A lot of the complaints in this thread I would have heartily agreed with 4-5 years ago, but the

I think they've made a lot of progress with the "be nice" thing. A lot of the complaints in this thread I would have heartily agreed with 4-5 years ago, but they seem dated to me now. Maybe it's my perspective that's changed, that's always a possibility. The database model has never seemed right to me, but I do think SO is making progress moving away from it. Ironically, I believe they will be better able to achieve the database goal once they let it be an emergent property of Q&A rather than grudgingly allowing Q&A to get the database.