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Comment by EvanAnderson

5 hours ago

I didn't do much community stuff on Stack Overflow, but Server Fault suffered from a certain class of user who was more interested in curating and rules-lawyering the "quality" of questions than actually helping people. It was hard work to keep those people in check, and the Stack Exchange metaphor seemed to draw those kind of people like moth to flame.

Those people are always drawn to these unpaid positions of power and they’re absolute death-knells for the community. Time and time again you see it.