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Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month by stopsayingsorry on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:11AM (#50285099)
You are correct about that. But the fundamental design of the site facilitated the value extracting vermin. Then the biggest value extracting vermin the internet has ever seen came along, used you as the training data and replaced you.

The biggest suckers were the people who were genuinely putting it effort there. So, in the end, did they make the world a better place? One would like to hope they did, but we are yet to see the long term consequences of the capabilities which were created with the value extracted there.

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Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month by zahlman on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:06AM (#50301858)
> You are correct about that. But the fundamental design of the site facilitated the value extracting vermin.

For sure. The site was quite poorly designed for its stated goals.

> but we are yet to see the long term consequences of the capabilities which were created with the value extracted there.

I cannot see fit to blame people for the actions of others they enabled, even deliberately let alone inadvertently.

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