My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow
First off, a caveat: I'm about to complain about a lot of people I respect and rather like. I'll probably take a lot of heat for it, but it needs to be said.I feel like a lot of the closing of niche questions these days comes from the chat communities.  (By "chat", I mean: http://chat.stackoverflow.com/)There's a huge rash of "cv-pls" in the chat rooms.  I don't have a problem with it in general, but the culture around it has become rather toxic. It effectively gives anyone there an automatic close hammer. Furthermore, it's not the current "dupehammer", but a close hammer for any reason, as you can pretty instantly get 5 votes to close.Somehow, every question involving anything than popular web frameworks is apt to be closed as "too localized".I can't count the number of times I've been in the middle of answering an admittedly niche, but well-phrased and on-topic question, when it's closed before I can answer.  The source of the sudden rash of close votes? Almost always a "cv-pls" in relevant tag's chat room.