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I'm fine with stackoverflow dying. Its moderation policies (in particular allowing mods to rewrite your replies) were absolutely not okay.

• zahlman 1y ago
  > Its moderation policies (in particular allowing mods to rewrite your replies) were absolutely not okay. You write answers, not "replies", and everyone is allowed to propose edits (and people above a certain reputation threshold can do it unilaterally). The reason for this is that when you use Stack Overflow, you are not using a forum. The point is not to "reply" to the person asking a question; the point is to answer a question in a way that is useful to everyone, not just the person who asks. The curation policies are extremely well thought out and have been carefully refined over multiple years through extensive discussion. They absolutely are okay. Just not for the purposes you want them to serve. You are not the one who gets to decide what purpose the site should serve. The site was already designed and intended to serve a specific purpose before you got there. You were the one responsible for understanding this.
  • znpy 1y ago
    > You write answers, not "replies" meaningless correction > (and people above a certain reputation threshold can do it unilaterally) and that's a problem > They absolutely are okay. Just not for the purposes you want them to serve. I never told you my purposes and there's no way for you to derive that from my writing. You're making stuff up. > You are not the one who gets to decide what purpose the site should serve. Absolutely, but I wrote something completely different though. But you weren't keen on reading and understanding, just regurgitating some pre-approved narrative. > The site was already designed and intended to serve a specific purpose before you got there. You were the one responsible for understanding this. At this point it's irrelevant, StackOverflow is dying and we'll ask stuff to ChatGPT and similar, so problem solved anyway.