<story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neya</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know who you are. But if you are the creator of this site, you have my respect from the bottom of my heart.&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow was wonderful when it was started the way it was. The moderated content was extremely useful. But later, they decided to screw everything up by doing some stupid things like assigning too much power to moderators.&lt;p&gt;I always used to assume SO was more like the real world democracy; if something isn&amp;#x27;t right, you could fix it yourself being an ordinary citizen. However, on SO, that&amp;#x27;s not the case anymore. There is a moderator on top of the users who decides what&amp;#x27;s right and what&amp;#x27;s wrong. And he goes into a &amp;#x27;rage mode ON&amp;#x27; by flagging genuinely useful questions as &amp;#x27;inappropriate&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;not suitable for SO&amp;#x27;, as he pleases.&lt;p&gt;How can you challenge his decision? God knows. I&amp;#x27;ve searched round the site to report moderators. Good luck with reporting some rogue moderator. I like the fact that you can flag something offensive easily, but I don&amp;#x27;t like the fact that it&amp;#x27;s not as easy for the reverse.&lt;p&gt;Forget the moderators. Let&amp;#x27;s say you want to ask something about security with sessions in PHP. Good luck finding answers on SO. Your question will be migrated to some weird subdomain.stakcoverflow.com for which you need a separate account to maintain and collect your badges from scratch, again.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why I knew there would be a day when someone would start something like this. Nonconstructive nails it for me. And hopefully for other disappointed SO fans too.&lt;p&gt;Thanks for creating this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmrfrmrf</author><text>I apologize in advance for sounding like an elitist prick, but in my mind, community-driven sites like StackOverflow, Reddit, Wikipedia, are prone to the noise of do-nothing armchair experts (especially in this economy with the unemployment rate) who have nothing better to do than stir philosophical debates over nothing.&lt;p&gt;As a person with a job who actually needs answers rather than reading through pages upon pages of discourse that goes absolutely nowhere, I appreciate StackOverflow&amp;#x27;s approach to moderation. StackOverflow is a place for specific questions and specific answers, not subjective nonsense questions like &amp;quot;how secure are sessions in PHP?&amp;quot; that, on this &amp;quot;Not Constructive&amp;quot; website, I imagine will be flooded with answers ranging from &amp;quot;PHP SUXXX LOL GO PYTHON&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;In my opinion, sessions are inherently broken blah blah blah&amp;quot;. While the moderators may be able to mitigate these issues a little bit, the problem isn&amp;#x27;t so much with the answers as the &lt;i&gt;question itself&lt;/i&gt;, which has no &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; answer.&lt;p&gt;So, while I can see why people with a lot of free time might want to go to NotConstructive as a diversion, I foresee this site as little more than an informational black hole of back-and-forth BS.</text></comment>
<story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neya</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know who you are. But if you are the creator of this site, you have my respect from the bottom of my heart.&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow was wonderful when it was started the way it was. The moderated content was extremely useful. But later, they decided to screw everything up by doing some stupid things like assigning too much power to moderators.&lt;p&gt;I always used to assume SO was more like the real world democracy; if something isn&amp;#x27;t right, you could fix it yourself being an ordinary citizen. However, on SO, that&amp;#x27;s not the case anymore. There is a moderator on top of the users who decides what&amp;#x27;s right and what&amp;#x27;s wrong. And he goes into a &amp;#x27;rage mode ON&amp;#x27; by flagging genuinely useful questions as &amp;#x27;inappropriate&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;not suitable for SO&amp;#x27;, as he pleases.&lt;p&gt;How can you challenge his decision? God knows. I&amp;#x27;ve searched round the site to report moderators. Good luck with reporting some rogue moderator. I like the fact that you can flag something offensive easily, but I don&amp;#x27;t like the fact that it&amp;#x27;s not as easy for the reverse.&lt;p&gt;Forget the moderators. Let&amp;#x27;s say you want to ask something about security with sessions in PHP. Good luck finding answers on SO. Your question will be migrated to some weird subdomain.stakcoverflow.com for which you need a separate account to maintain and collect your badges from scratch, again.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why I knew there would be a day when someone would start something like this. Nonconstructive nails it for me. And hopefully for other disappointed SO fans too.&lt;p&gt;Thanks for creating this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cruise02</author><text>Most of what you say here is just nonsense.&lt;p&gt;1. In the vast majority of cases, if you see something not right on Stack Overflow you can fix it yourself. Anyone at all, regardless of reputation, can suggest an edit to any post.&lt;p&gt;2. You can challenge moderator decisions on Meta Stack Overflow, which is linked at the top of every single page on the site. (Or, if you have enough reputation, you can just vote counter to most moderator decisions directly on the site. It is democratic.)&lt;p&gt;3. There are over 1,600 questions about security with sessions in PHP on Stack Overflow. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[php]+security+sessions+is%3Aquestion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=[php]+security+sessions+is...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>