Opinions about a post in Stack Overflow

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Tim Post, a moderator in Stack Overflow, posted this answer in a question regarding this site.

What is your opinion?

[WillSullivan]

Tim's an employee. He's also a nice guy that I do like. It's their shop, they can decide the rules.

I try to stay out of conversations around the site on meta, as this site stands on its own. I don't need to defend it because I don't believe it needs defending. If the site is useful and has a positive effect, people will use it. If not, it will be abandoned. Apparently others are finding it useful.

None of the issues ever brought up (and I see them all as I got an IFTTT alarm called "somebody's bitching about IDVB on meta again") concerned the content of the links, just how the links were being used. I can't control that (tho #94 addresses this with a possible workaround that I might whip up sometime in the near future). All I can do is provide helpful instruction as to why someone got downvoted and how they can fix that.

That's really all I have to say about it.

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OK, thank you very much!