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Stackoverflow sometimes annoy me in how aggressive some people can be at closing questions. So this is a question that's 3 years old, where Jeff Atwood himself

Stackoverflow sometimes annoy me in how aggressive some people can be at closing questions. So this is a question that's 3 years old, where Jeff Atwood himself weighed in. But somehow, just because it got a surge of popularity recently it was closed 40 minutes ago.

gearoidoc 14y ago
You'd have at least thought they'd just move the question.
bdg 14y ago
Typically questions linked from a news aggregate site are closed because the question is now a stage for people to shout "me too" without reading the other posts. We end up with dozens of comments that haven't added any value to the discussion. If one of my questions are linked, I request a mod lock it, because it's damn annoying to have my inbox flooded with that kind of feedback. Protected locks are removed after a short time, if you feel strongly that you had a meaningful contribution to the post.
- lloeki 14y ago
  This explains the "protected by Charles 6 hours ago", not the "closed as off topic by agf, Charles, marcog, leppie, MartinHN 1 hour ago".
  - jeltz 14y ago
    Yeah, protecting questions linked from news aggregators is fine and a sensible thing to do. Closing the questions is not.
foxhop 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4248433 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4248433
JeremyBanks 14y ago
Jeff didn't weight in, he just edited one of the posts to apply formatting. This clearly isn't a programming question, it's a UX or language question. Appropriately enough, a very similar question was previously posted on UX.StackExchange.com: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/1080/using-sign-in-vs-using-log-in http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/1080/using-sign-in-vs-... When the site was younger there were lots of questions that were only relevant to programmers, not actually about programming. In small numbers these weren't bad, but they became increasingly popular compared with actual programming questions. That was not a healthy trend -- communities needs to keep their focus -- and the stricter moderation that Stack Overflow has now was partially a response so that. If somebody wants to contribute an answer, they should post it on the on-topic UX.SE question. Closing the Stack Overflow post shouldn't affect anyone. (Deleting is another matter, and I'll oppose deleting this question if it's suggested.)
ghurlman 14y ago
Needs just one more vote to reopen - I can't even figure the logic as to how this question is off topic in any way, shape, or form.

gearoidoc 14y ago

You'd have at least thought they'd just move the question.

bdg 14y ago

Typically questions linked from a news aggregate site are closed because the question is now a stage for people to shout "me too" without reading the other posts. We end up with dozens of comments that haven't added any value to the discussion. If one of my questions are linked, I request a mod lock it, because it's damn annoying to have my inbox flooded with that kind of feedback. Protected locks are removed after a short time, if you feel strongly that you had a meaningful contribution to the post.

lloeki 14y ago
This explains the "protected by Charles 6 hours ago", not the "closed as off topic by agf, Charles, marcog, leppie, MartinHN 1 hour ago".
- jeltz 14y ago
  Yeah, protecting questions linked from news aggregators is fine and a sensible thing to do. Closing the questions is not.

foxhop 14y ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4248433 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4248433

JeremyBanks 14y ago

Jeff didn't weight in, he just edited one of the posts to apply formatting. This clearly isn't a programming question, it's a UX or language question. Appropriately enough, a very similar question was previously posted on UX.StackExchange.com: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/1080/using-sign-in-vs-using-log-in http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/1080/using-sign-in-vs-... When the site was younger there were lots of questions that were only relevant to programmers, not actually about programming. In small numbers these weren't bad, but they became increasingly popular compared with actual programming questions. That was not a healthy trend -- communities needs to keep their focus -- and the stricter moderation that Stack Overflow has now was partially a response so that. If somebody wants to contribute an answer, they should post it on the on-topic UX.SE question. Closing the Stack Overflow post shouldn't affect anyone. (Deleting is another matter, and I'll oppose deleting this question if it's suggested.)

ghurlman 14y ago

Needs just one more vote to reopen - I can't even figure the logic as to how this question is off topic in any way, shape, or form.