> For Stack Overflow, the new model, along with highly subjective ideas of “quality” opened the gates to a kind of Stanford Prison Experiment. Rather than encou

> For Stack Overflow, the new model, along with highly subjective ideas of “quality” opened the gates to a kind of Stanford Prison Experiment. Rather than encouraging a wide range of interactions and behaviors, moderators earned reputation by culling interactions they deemed irrelevant. This part is just outright wrong, though I think it's not an uncommon misunderstanding. You do not get any reputation at all for removing content. Curation is almost not incentivized by reputation at all, the only exception are suggested edits (and rep gain is capped there). If your goal is only to get more internet points the best strategy is to quickly answer every question that comes in, and not to close, downvote or delete anything. Curation actually works against you as you won't get points if the question is deleted (within a certain time limit). So gamification is doing the opposite of what the author claims here.