Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ...
by viraptor on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:36AM
(#40297354)
It's still a good protest if you're not covered by GDPR. As long as you don't care about the account that is - I suspect you're going to be banned after a few times. But there's only so many people able to review changes/flags. Enough people could totally DoS the review system and force some changes.
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Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ...
by Richyrichy3234 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:39AM
(#40297387)
Its very easy.
No one is editing their posts constantly and with high change.
Take your backups (you have anyway), diff the content, allow only minor changes and a max edit limit of x, restore the content if those criteria are not met.
Sure it costs a week or a month to add this feature to the platform but data will not be lost.
Nonetheless, SO is not the only ones having an archive of SO
Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ...
by viraptor on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @06:57PM
(#40303552)
It's not that easy. Major changes / rewrites for quality are not that rare. Minor changes could also break the system by injecting false information. And even if you could automate this, it still takes time / effort continuously, because people who really care will adapt.
Any protest like that will affect SO's ability to do other things they care about.