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@SvW Can you point out the insulting part of his statement? By telling him he doesn't know what he's talking about, you are doing exactly what he is stating in his post. "If you don't agree, get out of here...". So that's what more and more users are doing, leaving. Ironically enough, there's quite a lot of discussion in Meta about how to keep users and get new ones to stick around.
@MDMarra I did use the down vote incorrectly then. But I would add that giving your opinion on the matter and ask a potential moderator to confirm if they agree with you or not could be problematic. Unfortunately, because of the high rep you rightfully have, it might be seen as confronting influential members to disagree with one of them :). I would have tried to be as neutral as possible when submitting questions to potential moderators.
Maybe it's the fact that the standards for new users are too high that reduces participation. Not the other way around. IMO what's really ruining the site is the constant confrontation between new users who are trying to ask questions and old timers hammering them down with RTFF (my twist on RTFM but for FAQ).
Am I to understand that if our answers gets unpopular and gets us negative reputation, we can just delete them? How is that not "cheating" the system? Accepted or not, I think it's a little unfair to remove answers in order to stop loosing reputation.
