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Honestly, I agree. I just use SO more as a destination from Google; I don't get involved much anymore. It's a great place. But, it's just gotten so pompous I just can't stop rolling my eyes whenever I see many of the moderator discussions or see much on their blog. The "niceness" graph or whatever it was, really just took it such a strange level for me. I feel like Joel is much smarter than this. It's almost like they took Atwood's unabashed overly aggressive moderation stance and made a religion out of it. Actually, a lot of the groupthink over at SO is kind of preachy.

But it's OK because they say "we're making the Internet a better place," :) That's kind of an annoying trope at this point too but that's for another discussion.