> Except the moderators are unpaid and they don't hurt much more than egos ? Read again. It has nothing to do with "ego". By allowing their "moderated" thread

> Except the moderators are unpaid and they don't hurt much more than egos ? Read again. It has nothing to do with "ego". By allowing their "moderated" threads to continue polluting search engine search results, they are wasting my time. They are wasting the time of everyone else who has a similar question and makes the mistake of clicking through an SO link. I would not be at all surprised if they got downranked because people at Google were tired of SO wasting their time.