| Old boys club is a misleading way to describe the scenario. There is content that doesn't belong and content that does, this is established by the company at a broad scale and customized for various boards by the community. I haven't seen the case where content belongs but is denied because you're not well enough know or w/e. If by old boys club you mean long standing members are preventing new members from changing policy then yeah thats true. Another thing you're failing to realize is that that plenty of people who do RTFM, become contributors, and stick around. More than enough to keep up with demand. > that get the boot because they've been addressed(poorly) previously This is a valid complaint. I believe SE needs the Karma system to do a better job at rewarding cleaning up existing questions. > At what point do you start just running a Wiki of programming answers, and not a community of programmers. Its more we want a community to create a q/a based wiki. There needs to be a question answering community (no need to focus on the asking one it will come) and strict question moderation helps attract and retain the answering community. Retraining and attracting 15+ year industry vets is much more vital to SE's health than retraining new users. |