The Fall of Stack Overflow

Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by wahnfrieden on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:00AM (#36860536)

Yes, if you cite a solution the mods there get angry when you don’t copy paste the third party site content instead of just link to it. The stated reason is to make sure the content isn’t lost. In other words to ensure the content is duplicated on SO.

I have no allegiance to SO ownership so when the fake SO sites show up in results instead of SO, usually reading them will just give me the answer more quickly than finding the actual SO source.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by ceejayoz on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:53AM (#36861509)

They want enough of an excerpt so the answer doesn't become useless years later when someone redesigns their blog URL schema or shuts it down. That's reasonable, and probably falls within fair use.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by wahnfrieden on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:56PM (#36871355)

That’s what I said

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by bobajeff on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:12AM (#36861694)

>mods there get angry when you don’t copy paste the third party site content instead of just link to it...

There's a good reason for that. Sites come and go and as a result links to solutions die and you wish someone had just answered the question instead of just linked to it.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by wahnfrieden on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:57PM (#36871360)

Thats what I said

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