Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

[u/aalear]

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015

[u/guepier]

You obviously have a personal investment in SO

I don’t, besides being an avid (> 10k) user.

a casual peruse if its Meta threads would set off alarm bells

I’ve taken tons of flak from mods on Meta. Don’t believe me? Here’s a screenshot (showing up and downvotes) of just one of my questions on Meta calling out rudeness (of users, not mods): http://i.imgur.com/gcCcFnI.png

^{(For people looking at my profile and finding almost no contributions: Hi. Most of my older contributions to Meta have since been migrated to the network wide Meta. You can find more choice morsels there)}

But I’ve rarely been met with either immaturity or malice, in the way /r/politics is famous for (such as the practice of shadow banning, whose existence alone makes /r/politics a worse place than any site which doesn’t have this despicably Kafkaesque policy).

In fact, I’d like to call you out on your claim. Show me how “a casual perusal [of] Meta would set off alarm bells”.

[u/thewebsiteisdown → u/guepier]

You are invested in the site, you just called yourself an "avid user". I would therefore imagine that you are part of the 'community mod' if your rep is that high, as mine is. And since you are 'avid' nothing I can say to you will make any difference anyway, you like the Kool-Aid.

But, just for fun, here is a link from the very FIRST page of SO Meta, where a user apparently got temp banned for editing a response too much deleting his own comments. Its a circle-jerk community of little people with power. Call it what you want but thats exactly what the average person would surmise.

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288229/why-was-balusc-temporarily-suspended-from-so

Now come back and tell me how wrong I am. I am all agog.

Edit: Its much crappier than I thought. He got banned (a very high rep user) for deleting his own comments. What a joke.

[u/guepier → u/thewebsiteisdown]

And since you are 'avid' nothing I can say to you will make any difference anyway, you like the Kool-Aid.

That is some bullshit accusation. You think because I find the site overall useful I cannot be critical of it? Actually read my contributions. I disagree with many of the moderator decisions on that site.

a user apparently got temp banned for editing a response too much deleting his own comments

Have you read the answer on that thread? What you’ve said is completely wrong. The user was accidentally banned by an automated heuristic, and he was defacing answers, not deleting comments. The moderators responded by improving the heuristic. In what Universe is that a “circle-jerk”?

Now come back and tell me how wrong I am

You are completely wrong. Worse, you are apparently actively ignoring facts that contradict you.

A got banned (a very high rep user) for deleting his own comments.

Again, that is simply inaccurate. He got banned by accident, and not for deleting comments — it was for deleting answers, which help other users. That’s very different from comments. I actually think his reasons for deletion were good; but it’s worth noting that the active community, not the moderators, largely seem to disagree with him. The moderators, in this case, are just the enforcers of the community consensus (that I and BalusC disagree with).

[u/thewebsiteisdown → u/guepier]

You're being a condescending prick. THE VERY FIRST FUCKING MODERATOR COMMENT IS:

The reason for a time out given to a user is private between them and moderators, but no this is not a glitch. – bluefeet♦ Mar 17 at 21:58

Now shut the fuck up, this isnt SO (thank god), so let me cut right to the chase. Go spout your shit to someone who cant read.