[wpietri]

Ditto. I stopped contributing to Stack Overflow because of this.

It's a classic example of cart-before-the-horse product thinking. Users aren't there to follow your orders; they're people with actual needs that you're trying to serve. I get that they don't want the site to be overrun with goofy content, because that prevents you from serving other actual needs. But there are better solutions than tasking a large number of people with running around and jerkily stomping out anything that doesn't fit the owners' precise vision.

I think this is the exact mistake that Friendster made. And really, the same one Google Plus made. Neither of those products were built for the users; they were built to serve the owners' desires.

[Turing_Machine]

Yes, the same with Wikipedia. The site has largely been taken over by people who are there simply to "be moderators".

[Turing_Machine]

And I see we have plenty of 'em here, too.