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Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ... by KennyBlanken on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:43AM (#40297442)
Maybe not legally speaking, but the users are the ones who put the time into the answers. To the users, emotionally, it's their own content they are "defacing", and they're doing it specifically because the content they worked hard on is now being greedily monetized in the 'AI rush'.

Protest is rarely pretty, often not legal. That's the point...

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Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ... by shadowgovt on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:48AM (#40297510)
Unfortunately in this case it's going to be pretty useless. It's not hard for Esso to detect changes that decrease the utility of an answer and replace it with the one from their archive.
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