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Imagine being such a bad website, you're basically the only thing AI actually took down.
SO was in decline before AI. AI just accelerated the process. The shit moderation is what took it down.
I only became a dev 5 years ago its incredibly restrictive. They dug their own grave with their moderation.
Absolutely
I've used it many times as a lurker, and I would have loved to add answers buy it was just not usable for that
Seems like unless you can come up with a novel question, you basically cant vote or comment. So I guess... just not interact?
AI took down a fuck load of independent/small websites by bombarding them with millions of connections for scraping and by circumventing user traffic to them
AI didn't take it down. Stack overflow was on the way out way before.