mccHard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts
Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here
tuban_muzuruI have dealt with novice coders for 40 years. I've told them to steer clear of SO - ask me if you've got a question about anything.
#StuckOverflow isn't entirely bad, but there's enough rat shit stirred into that pudding I would never trust anything trained on its data.
@tuban_muzuru I like Stack Overflow, but the problem with it is that it's so old that many of the questions are from like 2008-2015 and that means that often it gives you an answer that was correct ten years ago but is wrong now. (Sometimes they exacerbate this by closing a new question because it's a duplicate of a 2010 one full of outdated answers!)
So… the new "don't forget, you're here forever" policies will probably exacerbate this problem, if fewer high-quality answers come in after 2024.
Shane Celis@mcc @tuban_muzuru They’ve invited the query rot and nothing seems to suggest they don’t like it that way.