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SpaghettiX | 1 year ago

I still use StackOverflow. Not as much as I used too, thanks to GPT, but still multiple times a day. What I find is that I spend less time on SO.

However, IMHO deleting questions you originally wrote in the past is hurting other users more than it is hurting AI training.

Other users cannot write similar answers to yours, because it doesn't add anything and they'd get downvoted or deleted. So if you hadn't written your answer years ago, others could've written something similar. Also, other users may have commented on your questions/answers. Their efforts would be lost/deleted if you deleted your questions/answers.

Thanks for your previous contribution to the community. But I would say the worst you should be able to do is remove your name/anonymise your posts, not just delete them.

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Ekaros|1 year ago

I wonder would actually deleting questions be a good thing. If there is no old question the same question asked again can not possibly be a duplicate... So constant loop of deleting questions might actually be effective way to fix some problems. And there is enough off-site backups already.

jncfhnb|1 year ago

Multiple times a day sounds like a massive amount to me…?

__MatrixMan__|1 year ago

Looking through my browser history, I'd say that I average about 5 distinct SO posts per day. If you know there will be an answer it's less typing to search for it than it is to have ChatGPT regenerate it.