I think it is Kat Nagel's "Natural Lifecycle of Mailing Lists" writ large: http://users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/lifelist.html http://users.rider.edu/~suler/ps

I think it is Kat Nagel's "Natural Lifecycle of Mailing Lists" writ large: http://users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/lifelist.html http://users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/lifelist.html I've been a Usenet user since 1987 and am reasonably aware of how to write questions to technical groups. My last two or three Stack posts regarding "I want to do x, I've tried a-e" were summarily closed with no responses to appeals even though there may have been useful although not conclusive suggestions. The claim was that the questions asked for product recommendations, even when I wrote "Not looking for product recommendations" in the posts. That's when I deleted my account. "Lack of compassion" is very accurate. I think the gatekeepers have gotten carried away.