Those questions were inherently difficult to moderate and that was realized very early on that such a site wouldn't work. For such to work, it needs many peopl

Those questions were inherently difficult to moderate and that was realized very early on that such a site wouldn't work. For such to work, it needs many people who are actively moderating that content rather than just showing up to add fun quips. https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/the-six-subjective-question-guidelines-enforcement-notice https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions... and https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/17/merging-season/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/17/merging-season/ From the SO Blog: > There’s an even longer list of things that really belong on the new Programmers Stack Exchange, which appears to be degrading into fairly stupid water-cooler nonsense, and could benefit from an infusion of more meaty subjects, like these proposals: > Software Engineering which was posted three months before it was out of beta ( https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/12/17/introducing-programmers-stackexchange-com/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/12/17/introducing-programmer... ). I would contend that the 'it got taken over by people' is not representative of the history as it would have gotten shut down by Jeff and Joel if it didn't clean up its act.