Comment by culi
5 months ago
I guess I'm the only one that was a fan of SO's moderation. I never got too deep into it (answered some TypeScript questions). But the intention to reduce duped questions made a lot of sense to me. I like the idea of a "living document" where energy is focused on updating and improving answers to old versions of the same question. As a user looking for answers it means I can worry less about finding some other variation of the same question that has a more useful answer
I understand some eggs got cracked along the way to making this omelette but overall I'd say about 90% of the time I clicked on a SO link I was rewarded with the answer I was looking for.
Just my two cents
The problem with duplicate questions is that they weren't duplicates at all, and mods weren't competent enough to tell a difference.
Show me one that was closed by a moderator. Just one. And I will tell you exactly what happened.
I think the poster you're responding to is correct. I've seen it many times myself. And just so you know, asking for a piece of data and not getting it is not going to be proof that you're right.
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I logged into my old account and found an old question I asked:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32711321/setting-element...
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You had me looking through my history. Here is an example from 12 years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15626760/does-an-idle-my...
Granted when I look at that question today, it doesn't make much sense. But 12 years-back me didn't know much better. Let's just say the community was quite hostile to people trying to figure stuff out and learn.
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79530539/how-is-an-ssh-c...
Question: How is an SSH certificate added using the SSH agent protocol?
> Closed. This question is seeking recommendations for software libraries, tutorials, tools, books, or other off-site resources
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I also agreed with this vision. It was meant to be more like Wikipedia rather than Reddit.