Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.

Tom's Hardware

@mcc I find it weird that people are waking up to the fact that they were doing free labor for a for profit company. Did they think SO was a charity or something?

The real lesson is to never license. It’s just a shakedown by middle men trying to free money. Scrape everything.
Death to copyright.

@jonathankoren

Two words: "Gamification" and "Reputation"

The "Stack Exchange" thing made it for people to get an dopamine rush for beeing succesful, winning the next level of the "Game"

Everyone there is in a race to get more reputation, get "Badges of Honor" and all the things

Its working just as its designed to

@mcc