I was happily active on the SE network, in several sites, for 15 or so years. Without any special efforts I accumulated some 500k internet points. Cool.
And then something changed. Ego trips. Questions immediately downvoted. An extremely, psychotic Meta site.
I get it that plenty of questions are low quality. But for fuck's sake - why not just having a second look at high rep questions, which are more likely to be well rounded ? This is how you lose your more enthusiastic members.
Within SO some groups were great and others (Go, I am looking at you) were elitist cliques.
And then there are the niche sites: cooking, LaTeX, ... Welcoming, happy questions and relevant answers. These are the ones I will miss a lot.
And then something changed. Ego trips. Questions immediately downvoted. An extremely, psychotic Meta site.
I get it that plenty of questions are low quality. But for fuck's sake - why not just having a second look at high rep questions, which are more likely to be well rounded ? This is how you lose your more enthusiastic members.
Within SO some groups were great and others (Go, I am looking at you) were elitist cliques.
And then there are the niche sites: cooking, LaTeX, ... Welcoming, happy questions and relevant answers. These are the ones I will miss a lot.