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: 
Firstly, full disclosure: I am a moderator, but not on Stack Overflow.

A debate about the closure of the question is a discussion about the site itself and as such belongs here, not on Stack Overflow and especially not in extended Stack Overflow comments. I regularly flag extended comment threads on SO for removal anyway when they veer off the topic of the question, which your discussion had.

Really if you wished to ask about the closure of questions, the place is here. As such I'd fully expect such discussion to be deleted (over the course of time either by the community or by moderators) - not because you're not allowed to have such discussions or make such observations, but because meta is a better place for them to be had. After all, if the question is deemed on topic, new visitors to the question don't want to see the debate on the best location for it on the question itself.
Heavy moderation (which seems to be at the heart of your question) does at times seems to be orthogonal to the principle that ["Stackoverflow is *You*"](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you/). Now I'm not making a value judgement about whether the moderation in this instance or in general is appropriate (maybe (probably?) more moderation leads to an even better site).

Maybe the best of both worlds would be if that blog post were merely titled, "Stackoverflow is *You*\*."

\*Provided the moderators don't strongly disagree with you.