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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 95 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Letting corporations "disrupt" forums was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Stack Overflow was great when it appeared. The info was spread out incredibly wide and there was a lot of really shitty info as well. One place where it could accumulate and be rated was extremely helpful.

But maybe it's time to create a federated open source Stack Overflow.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They also committed to providing open dumps of their data to make it free to all. At the start, they were doing all the right things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It all went downhill when they banned and slandered Monica.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who's Monica?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Take a read here. It's a better summary than I could manage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Oh, that's pretty bad... thanks for the link

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I once managed to find a pretty good alternative, but then I forgot its name. It was a very chill community unlike what Stackoverflow was recently with it's toxicity (properly formatted question police, people being offended for less popular languages, etc.).