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I think SO is starting the get the same problem that Wikipedia has been wrestling with - editor/moderator cliques. It may be a classic bureaucracy issue - on on
by digikata 12y ago
I think SO is starting the get the same problem that Wikipedia has been wrestling with - editor/moderator cliques. It may be a classic bureaucracy issue - on one hand they raise the quality bar by providing a higher level of consistency. On the other hand, they may drift from what might be considered reasonable from the point of view of more and more people outside the circle...
- nerfhammer 12y agoThe theory of universal deletionism states that sites with extensive volunteer moderators will invariably tend towards bureaucracy and deletionism regardless of what regular users want as mods get bored and want to feel important You should see how excited the moderators get when they decide there's a new rule against some new kind of question
- sp332 12y agoSO was supposed to mitigate this effect by making people earn their mod rights. So you only get to call other people's questions off-topic if you have a track record of contributing to the site content yourself.