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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

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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.

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