Within the past few months, I have noticed a definite decline in the quality and type of questions. It seems that SF is handling a lot of programming, or beginning/home users that really should be addressed in other SE sites and not asked here at all. After all, I thought that SF is supposed to be the site for "professional sysadmin" stuff.
Is more aggressive moderation the answer here?
You only noticed this in the past few months. Which stone have you been hiding under for the last couple of years or more?
Perception is reality. For all of their high falluten words about quality and community SE really only care about footfall. That's why their efforts to date to improve the quality of SE have been so pink-and-fluffy and largely ineffective.
The only way to solve the problem is to raise the barrier and that requires more, firmer moderation. The community needs to wrest SF back from the cluless and cease being the HellDesk of SO that it has become.
More, faster, firmer moderation is the only way forward. Vote for me and vote for the Noob you know it makes sense.
More aggressive moderation both on the main site (to close crap) and on meta (to close the whining that comes from closing crap) is the only solution to fix this problem.
No more pink-and-fluff from SE. No more summer of love, winter of cuddle or whatever.
