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Re:Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers f... by avivo on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:55PM (#33856475)
It's worth understanding the community and org better, and their reaction. Relevant links:

- https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421778/how-do-you-p...

- https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/412696/is-it-accept...

- https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384355/could-chatgp...

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Re:Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers f... by mdaniel on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:08PM (#33856614)
> Sure, but that's irrelevant. Whether or not the user understands the answer they posted is not the concern of the site.

Well, that's unfortunate. Then again, I guess that's a logical conclusion of the "safe harbor" for serving any user-submitted content: Stack Exchange only does the most cursory moderation, and the rest is caveat readator

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Re:Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers f... by kruuuder on Sunday December 04, 2022 @03:25PM (#33857483)
It's so funny and sad at the same time that, in typical SO manner, EugenSunic is being downvoted so much for raising such an interesting question.
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