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As mentioned by Amon in the latest moderator election questionnaire, the site shows a decreasing activity across multiple years, and Robert Harvey wrote “we may have gerrymandered the scope of this site a bit too much”. To me, these observations look like symptoms of the same disease – a community that is way too fixated on searching for excuses for downvoting and closing a new question instead of searching ways to fix a saveable question or communicate problems.

As mentioned by Amon in the latest moderator election questionnaire, the site shows a decreasing activity across multiple years, and Robert Harvey wrote “we may have gerrymandered the scope of this site a bit too much”. To me, these observations look like symptoms of the same disease – there is a part of our community that is way too fixated on searching for excuses for downvoting and closing a new question instead of searching ways to fix a saveable question or communicate problems.

If these were just singular, rare cases, I would not have put so much thought into it. However, given the frequency I think have seen this behaviour, I guess there is a broader problem here, something which might be perceived as a "hostile voting culture".

If these were just singular, rare cases, I would not have put so much thought into it. However, given the frequency I think I have seen this behaviour, I guess there is a broader problem here, something which might be perceived as a "hostile voting culture".