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by icebraining 4243 days ago
Shouldn't they be able to do something better with popular content that is beneficial to the community and appropriate to the forum than "lock" it on a technicality?

Like what? The content is still accessible, and it's even CC licensed, so anyone can repurpose it. What more would you want them to do with it?

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Celebrate it, encourage it, keep it open for further improvement ...?

If that mod had got to it earlier then it would have been "hidden" and the community wouldn't have created the great resource that it has in that question & its answers.

You can say "well just create that content elsewhere", but the community that creates that good content is at stackoverflow, and they want that content there (based on upvotes, responses, favouriting).