[rich_sasha]

I mostly agree, but also, the moderation has gone from great to pedantic, and further to poor enforcement of nonsensical rules.

I have had questions closed as duplicate, where the "original" asked something else. Questions about choice of framework apparently are off topic on SE stack exchange -> closed. Weirdo moderators / keen users butting in on active, sane questions with "I'm voting to close because [random nonsensical rule]".

I feel bad writing it as I suspect most moderators on SO are great, but this is nonetheless my overwhelming experience of past 12 months.

EDIT I forget about the patronizing users who didn't read the question, but don't let that stop them from lecturing you. On SO rules, life mistakes...

[gymbeaux]

I had a guy vote to close one of my 5-year-old questions that had an answer and plenty of upvotes at that point. It’s clearly helping people out but yeah let’s delete it because you want a badge (I’m not sure if you get a badge for that)