Same, I moderated https://blender.stackexchange.com https://blender.stackexchange.com for seven years from pre-inception [0] sinking many many hours into flushi

Same, I moderated https://blender.stackexchange.com https://blender.stackexchange.com for seven years from pre-inception [0] sinking many many hours into flushing out the community and amassing a proper resource for users. The closest thing to a community back then ~2013 was IRC and blenderartists which was really for showcase but in the later years kept getting distracted with people being offended, tiptoeing on eggshells around certain members of the community/mod team and just random crap all around not related to QA or improving the community. Got exhausted, left and haven't looked back. Despite staying in my small community the issues eventually seeped to other popular ones. It was around this time that several employees left and or were fired as well due to similar reasons, I don't remember all the details. One of my funniest stories from my time there is how I once closed a question as off-topic (it was) and several years later googled to find one result which was the same question flagged by yours truly (it was still off-topic but the irony wasn't lost). SE is really a great service especially the smaller niche sites, it just gets a bad rep by the small "elite" few. [0] - https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40377/blender https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40377/blender