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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by xeromal on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:41PM (#48960303)
Yeah, I had several questions popped for being an "opinion" question whatever that means. lol.

Do you remember how power users would edit your question just for the gamification of it. Drove me nuts

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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by dmboyd on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:58PM (#48961075)
That’s my only experience. Asking a direct technical question, only for it to be modified to a totally different question filled with essays of non-answers by folks who liked to answer their own questions I guess
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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by zahlman on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:24PM (#48964466)
> Yeah, I had several questions popped for being an "opinion" question whatever that means. lol.

Meanwhile, I saw so many people come to the meta site apparently completely unable to understand that a question leading off with "what do you think is the best..." (almost literally, in many cases!) is asking for a subjective opinion, that I had to make an artificial meta-canonical for it (https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/434806).

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