I feel stupid. Not only did I read all that, looking for and not finding the new philosophy. But then I did it again.

I love posts like this because it’s just a knife fight between community members whose identities are built around curation VS. a company whose user studies all sound the same alarm “new users leave because their shit gets curated”

Same thing happens to Wikipedia. The people building the platform pay good money for user study that show, pretty clearly, that trying to contribute to SO/WP is like hitting a brick wall. User study after user study will show the same thing but not give any way to break the logjam.

So then something like the above happens, with identical results each time. It’s glorious. Meanwhile new questions trend to 0.

This will be the third death of SO, but likely way more permanent.