The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

This appears to violate the creative commons license under which Stack Overflow content is posted.

When the author asked about this:

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question. Of course, they did draft a letter which credited the action to other events that occurred weeks before where I merely upvoted contributions from Luigi and bountied a few of his questions.

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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's even more annoying is when their refinements end up putting an objectively wrong answer as the authoritative record.

I found a question where someone new to electronics was how to get more current from a USB power supply.

The "correct" answer that was posted before the question was closed was that a source can't limit current and the questioner should learn more about electricity.

The actual correct answer - and probably what the questioner was looking for - is to short the data lines together because a compliant USB charger will only supply 500mA by default, not it's stated max current.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    What drives me mad is when a question is closed as a duplicate, and when you look at the duplicate it's either for a different version of the product and thus the answer isn't relevant, or the question straight up wasn't answered there either.

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