<story><title>Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow</title><url>https://games.greggman.com/game/done-with-stackoverflow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m currently in the top 0.86% overall on Stack Overflow, even though I haven&amp;#x27;t been actively contributing since shortly after college (2015ish). I&amp;#x27;ve always thought about writing this kind of blog post, but I think it&amp;#x27;s just pointless.&lt;p&gt;SO, over the past decade, has been destroyed by power-hungry admins. These admins are (1) not technically competent, (2) not politically astute, and (3) do not have the best of the community in mind. Simply put, they&amp;#x27;re power hungry online weirdos that just want to be &amp;quot;in charge&amp;quot; of a community. I&amp;#x27;ve witnessed this dozens of times, and there have been many (many) controversies concerning SO admins. After a few run-ins that rubbed me the wrong way, I no longer contribute. I feel that SO has become the new &amp;quot;Experts Exchange&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Yahoo Answers&amp;quot; -- ironically, exactly what they were trying to replace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TwoBit</author><text>In order to be an active admin for a site, you need to have a lot of free time for it. And it&amp;#x27;s exactly these mentally inept people who have that time. There needs to be a name for this paradigm.</text></comment>
<story><title>Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow</title><url>https://games.greggman.com/game/done-with-stackoverflow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m currently in the top 0.86% overall on Stack Overflow, even though I haven&amp;#x27;t been actively contributing since shortly after college (2015ish). I&amp;#x27;ve always thought about writing this kind of blog post, but I think it&amp;#x27;s just pointless.&lt;p&gt;SO, over the past decade, has been destroyed by power-hungry admins. These admins are (1) not technically competent, (2) not politically astute, and (3) do not have the best of the community in mind. Simply put, they&amp;#x27;re power hungry online weirdos that just want to be &amp;quot;in charge&amp;quot; of a community. I&amp;#x27;ve witnessed this dozens of times, and there have been many (many) controversies concerning SO admins. After a few run-ins that rubbed me the wrong way, I no longer contribute. I feel that SO has become the new &amp;quot;Experts Exchange&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Yahoo Answers&amp;quot; -- ironically, exactly what they were trying to replace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwd</author><text>The role of moderation is soul draining - all communities suffer from an Eternal September effect. There&amp;#x27;s always a someone new who didn&amp;#x27;t read or disregarded the rules.&lt;p&gt;I do agree there are those who are simply attracted to the power of moderating a community; what is &amp;quot;Cancel Culture&amp;quot; but that same exercise of power?&lt;p&gt;When a seasoned, prolific contributor gets disabused you know there&amp;#x27;s rot in the community; who is doing the moderation without knowing or ever communicating with the top contributors? That I don&amp;#x27;t get.</text></comment>