Question: 1. [Before](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7tByq.png)
2. [After](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dpm7C.png)
3. [What I'm reminded of](https://i.stack.imgur.com/our6a.jpg) [just a joke, I know the moderators of SO aren't like this]

My comments were in regards to [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/143701/what-is-the-worst-class-variable-function-name-you-have-ever-encountered) being closed (which is now re-opened and locked).

There was growing support for the comment I made, but the comment being deleted is [in my opinion] rather totalitarian. Are all StackOverflow members required to share the same opinion about the site and the people that run it? What is this, North Korea?

In my experience, 130-odd upvotes for a question is rather rare, so to me it would seem like the community wants to see answers and considers it a good question. All it takes is 5 rule-enforcers to say “nup, not having this” and all of a sudden the question that the community wanted answers to is no longer answerable.

The “community-driven” model of SE sites has [in my opinion] turned into “a site where people mostly nominate themselves to become moderators moderate community-provided questions and answers”.

I don't think I'm the only one that thinks this, does anyone else feel similar?

### Edit:

Since I am particularly bad at getting my point across, what I am specifically trying to discuss is the deletion of a comment I made about SO being monotonous. Robert Harvey pointed out that it was likely due to it being flagged 3 times and was automatically deleted, which I think is acceptable. I thought that it was removed by a mod because it appeared to me that the comments were selectively deleted by a mod (when truthfully all of them should have been deleted) just to get rid of the comment I made about SO.

Answer: 
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> What is this, North Korea?
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Yes. What, you don't see all the starvation, the barbed wire, the armed guards? I would have thought you'd complain about those before starting in on the comment deletion. Y'know, ignoring serious crimes while railing against minor ones is something *Hitler* would do.

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> All it takes is 5 rule-enforcers to say “nup, not having this” and all of a sudden the question that the community wanted answers to is no longer answerable.
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All it takes is 5 rule-enforcer-watchers to say "nup, this was incorrectly closed, re-opening" and the damage is undone. [Oh, look, that happened. *Twice.*](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/143701/revisions)

Obviously, we'll have to put those *other* ten people in front of the firing squad now. Since this is North Korea.

On a more serious note: that question was a ton of fun. *Three years ago.* Does every bit of idle amusement need to be kept around indefinitely? Do you still watch those old videos of your little-league baseball games?
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> ...all of a sudden the question that the community wanted answers to is no longer answerable.
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That's a question the community wanted answers to three years ago. They got 120 answers. Now *all of a sudden*, **three years later** the question is closed. At the request of the community, via moderator flag.

Oh the humanity.