"I was asking only to see one comment trying to answer it and then a mod aggressively shutting it down for not being “on topic” enough or whatever."
Stackoverflow once set out - with the very best intentions - to be better than expertsexchange et. al.
I think that's why they are so strict with their moderation.
The issue, of course, is that this is a hard problem. To moderate a community of experts you need to be an expert yourself. With Stackoverflow I feel most moderators are just overwhelmed with the task, so they aggressively shut down everything they don't understand.
Many of them are probably aware of that and just don't know how to handle it better. Others are so clueless that they do not even recognize the good questions.
Stackoverflow once set out - with the very best intentions - to be better than expertsexchange et. al. I think that's why they are so strict with their moderation.
The issue, of course, is that this is a hard problem. To moderate a community of experts you need to be an expert yourself. With Stackoverflow I feel most moderators are just overwhelmed with the task, so they aggressively shut down everything they don't understand.
Many of them are probably aware of that and just don't know how to handle it better. Others are so clueless that they do not even recognize the good questions.