@LordNeckbeard Thanks. I will, when I find some time. Thanks for helping out on those ffmpeg questions. And yes, it does, it's about finding out how people behave when they use web TV and streaming services in the presence of poor delivery or audiovisual quality. A bit of behavioral psychology mixed with technical influence factors.

@miroxlav No, it's not too long for me—it's actually rather concise for what I had in mind. "tl;dr" is something that people usually say (ironically) to summarize a post for those who may not want to read it in its entirety. And thank you!

Thank you. I remember a few discussions where we may not have always agreed, but they were definitely worth it. I'll happily continue to read your well-reasoned Meta posts. (And yes, you may call me that, but that's gonna be at least another three years from now, I guess, heh.)

To be honest: I am not very happy with you changing the question to something different. "Is reputation only built or assessed by tenure and quantity and not by fewer but well researched, studied and articulated questions and relevant answers?" deserves a careful study, but it has nothing to do whatsoever with a chatty comment thread.

I never told you to confront the user. Why would I do that? Not sure how you come to that conclusion. I'm saying the easiest thing would've been to just raise a flag and move on. Meta is also a place to discuss issues, but you seem to have a very strong preconceived opinion about this other user and their intentions, and I recommend that if you come to Meta to discuss something, you take a more constructive approach and don't accuse users of just wanting to get reputation, and call them "morons".

Please, read the title of your question here again: "Why does this off-topic member have higher rep than me?" — this just calling for trouble, when all that it would've needed was a "too chatty" flag.

I don't think you understand my point. I agree that the user's comments got a little out of hand—the comment thread is not the place to detail your philosophy about computing. You haven't confronted the user in the comment thread either and I never said that; you're doing it here. You are overreacting about a thing that could've been easily dealt with. About your question, I presume it's the lack of actual body text. It seems more like a list to me, and it's hard to parse the actual question out of it. Also, out of the (non-deleted) questions in your account, only this one was downvoted.

Then you need to share that research and try to ask constructively – in what way does a certain product allow you to accomplish something in less time, with fewer steps, et cetera.

I put the off topic (iOS-specific) questions on hold. More of a development issue; not sure if those actually shouldn't be on Stack Overflow, but I don't know their scope well enough.

Your question was not closed by a moderator, but by a regular community member.

It is, after all, also an open-ended question. Any answer would be equally valid. What problem needs to be solved? That'd make a better question. @ErikI