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Agree, look at the answers by one of the moderators: http://serverfault.com/users/126632/michael-hampton?tab=acti...

Can you point to any specific answer? I clicked through a couple of the highest voted and a couple of most recent answers and they all look fine to me.

For ex somebody askign "Best way to optimize site speed for a large traffic website?" and the comments: - I took a look at the site before I commented. Dollars to donuts the code is a nightmare pile of spaghetti "written" by people who have never even heard of design patterns. - Probably to scrap the whole thing and start over with a decent CMS.

Funny thing, besides the curtness, is that he's most likely not even technically correct, since performance issues on web sites are rarely due to the choice of CMS or in its code.

large traffic website and 500-1000 visits minimum a day don't match to begin with. I am not sure if visits means request or visitors but neither one request every 90 seconds nor one visitor every 90 seconds should do any harm to any server. I did not look into the page but I have no problem to imagine that this comments actually reflect the best option. I don't even consider the wording especially impolite. Sometimes reality is tough.

If we don't know what's really wrong with a website it's no good to answer "use another CMS", it can be wrong and it's not helpful at best, it would be better to give some pointers on where to start figuring out what's wrong.

Also the pompous "design patterns" comment; a lot (30% ?) of web sites in the Internet run on spaghetti code (Wordpress, Drupal) and many are fine, if I had to I'd bet the CMS and its code is not the problem.

He said in a comment that he looked at the code so I assume he really figured out that the thing is build on top of BoonEx Dolphin Smart Community Builder, probably a version from around 2007, and looked at it. But lets stop here, we are assuming way to much.

Another example (not from that moderator); guy asks how to block users from specific countries in AWS; questions gets put "on hold as off-topic" and moderator answer is "why do you care": http://serverfault.com/questions/585189/can-aws-block-access...

The person who answered that question is not a moderator.

sorry, you are correct. Still it was put on hold as off-topic by 6 moderators.

None of the people who put that question on hold were moderators, either. You can identify a user as a moderator by the diamond next to their name.

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