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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by gfody on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:22PM (#46484152)
this right here, not just overmoderated but the mods were wrong-headed from the start believing that it was more important to protect some sacred archive than for users to have good experiences.

SO was so elite it basically committed suicide rather than let the influx of noobs and their noob questions and noob answers kill the site

this nails it: https://www.tiktok.com/@techroastshow/video/7518116912623045...

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by rileymat2 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:26PM (#46484555)
It's funny, because I had a similar question but wanted to be able to materialize a view in Microsoft SQL Server, and ChatGPT went around in circles suggesting invalid solutions.

There were about 4 possibilities that I had tried before going to ChatGPT, it went through all 4, then when the fourth one failed it gave me the first one again.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by CamperBob2 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:36PM (#46484967)
You can't use the free chat client for questions like that in my experience. Almost guaranteed to waste your time. Try the big-3 thinking models (ChatGPT 5.2 Pro, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.5).
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by what on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:04AM (#46485102)
> this nails it

I assume you’re taking about the ending where gippity tells you how awesome you are and then spits out a wrong answer?

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by mixmastamyk on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:43AM (#46486483)
Yahoo answers died a lot faster and heavily formed SO policy.
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