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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by prepend on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:52PM (#36948630)
This hasn’t been my experience at all and I’ve found that chatgpt saves a ton of time over filtering SO.

I loved SO when it first started, but it got frustrating over time as moderators seemed to be too strict around removing “duplicate” answers.

It’s hard to know for sure, but I always felt SO would be better with a more Wikipedia approach that didn’t rely as much on opinionated mods.

It’s a tough place to be and I don’t think it’s possible to make a ton of money, I think it went downhill when the original founders sold a few years ago.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by pwdisswordfishc on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:44AM (#36955258)
> a more Wikipedia approach that didn’t rely as much on opinionated mods.

Tell me you don't know how Wikipedia works without telling me you don't know how Wikipedia works

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by prepend on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:53PM (#36979507)
The mods of Wikipedia operate very differently than the mods at SO. I think there are more rigorous rules with SO than Wikipedia and they also have their tiers of users who upvote messages. Wikipedia has nothing like this.
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