Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: The end of stackoverflow? Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 18:51:40 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 03:51:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a26244f426e5a703d63fbf30a1d0742f"; logging-data="2488071"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+wvdH6PObl1BwcfzONKjga" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qJbaC4uFsBCxw6g7Pg+yB2kwa58= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2673 On 5/11/2024 5:27 PM, boB wrote: > I have found that any of my contributions to a question are either > removed or edited. I thought it was just me but it looks like it > isn't just me. > > This may be for stack-exchange or in addition to. > > Are they owned by the same people ? > The article called them "sisters" SO can be viewed as a part of SE (with a specific focus; contrast this with, e.g., ) You may be seeing some of the same "faces" reviewing your posts in different places... There's a certain mindset (i.e., control freak) that draws people to moderating sites. I find mailing lists to be the best form of PRODUCTIVE interaction; usually, there is some long-standing relationship developed (if not already in place) between the participants so there is something at stake in their interactions -- beyond just access to the "interchange". I.e., when my neighbor hires a mariachi band for their nieces quinceañera, I grin and bear it. And, they'd know that my "inconsiderate" use of a jack hammer at 7AM is not one of CHOICE but of necessity. [I wrote a mailing list program, many years ago, that allows the list members to "censor" posts to which they object. But, it *exposes* each such censorship and penalizes the censor as well as the censored. I found that it was rarely used as folks find censoring others almost as abhorrent as BEING censored! "Play nice..."]