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by svnpenn 1493 days ago
After years of answers and over 90,000 reputation earned, I recently had my Stack Overflow account banned, with no explanation. I am one of only 70 people on the site with a Go silver badge:

https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/1665/go?userid=1002260

So Stack Exchange doesn't seem to care about contributors anymore.

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After my account was banned too, I looked around and eventually joined wotas.net. It's very small and you don't get my answers but... at least it's something. Sharing this in the hope that other SO exodus want to join as well (more people = better answers)
What did support tell you?
I feel GitHub issues is the new StackExchange in terms of solution quality for specific library or framework questions.
I'm sorry to hear that.

One of the reasons we focused on smaller niche SE communities is because Stack Overlflow became completely "another beast" where the processes of valuing contribution and building reputation work in a very different way (or don't work at all) on a large scale.