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The issue is that power tripping mods prevent many questions from becoming great ones. And I disagree that questions need to have one factual answer. Great que

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• Arnt 3y ago
  1. I didn't write "one" and I didn't write "a single". 2. It sounds as if you think the moderators and the answerers are disjoint sets. They're not, at least not in the tags that I follow. The power tripping mods are the same people who contribute a majority of the answers. The decision of whether to answer or close is one decision, not two decisions made by different groups of people.
  • oezi 3y ago
    Okay, you wrote 'a'. Mostly, moderators and answers feel like disjoint sets because the majority of answers come from the long tail of people (at least it feels to me). But likely it is similar like with Wikipedia where the moderators feel like that they do most of the work when in reality they really don't and others would be happy to do the work if the moderators wouldn't hamper them.
    • Arnt 3y ago
      I provide answers for a few tags. Most of the moderation acts on those tags are made by people whose names I've seen time and time again on answers and comments. I see a bad question in my feed, click to close it, and see 'closed by the votes of' and the names are names I know. There have been exceptions, e.g. we asked a site moderator to wipe someone's bas64-encoded password from a question. The user probably changed password, but we got a site moderator to wipe it thoroughly without waiting for that. I know those site moderators do a ton of work, but the power trip behaviour you see as questioner is done by answerers like me. The site moderators do things like cleaning up vandalism or spam, when someone uses a script to add outgoing links to a thousand pages.