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> The problem is that fine tuning (and occasional restructuring) needs to be an ongoing process, and it has stopped. This is exactly it. SO is ossifying. Plus
by biorach 3y ago
> The problem is that fine tuning (and occasional restructuring) needs to be an ongoing process, and it has stopped.
This is exactly it. SO is ossifying. Plus a small number of power users have final say on things like e.g. duplicate status, with no way of revising their decision.
The usefulness of the site is slowly decreasing and it's a shame
- pelagicAustral 3y agoI think the measure for fine-tuning as an ongoing process was to let the communities grow and maintain themselves organically based on the knowledge and experience of power-users, but what happened is that instead of letting the wisdom cascade for generations they ended up with opinionated, gatekeeping cliques. So not quite an idyllic ancient fantasy realm of unlimited knowledge, but instead thunderdome status on most SEs