Next step is to get the ChatGPT clones/alternatives to post alternative answers and let them all upvote the best one.
Obligatory XKCD. https://xkcd.com/810
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#42Every answer is “this is covered in another post. Duplicate.”
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#43Is this a joke or meant to be a useful tool?
Part of the challenge of StackOverflow is finding the question that matches your situation. But that is a pointless act with ChatGPT -- just ask it your exact question. Duplicates be damned.
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#44It won’t truly match the experience, unless it can inject veiled insults into the answers. /s
Everybody got what they wanted and it’s much “nicer” now (it won’t even let you comment “what have you tried?” anymore, for instance). Wouldn’t you know it, the front page is now full of low-quality, low-effort questions.
I mostly no longer contribute to stack overflow.
I don’t ask questions, because people take a very carefully explained, explicit question and post irrelevant stupid comments on it (“why are you doing this?”) instead of answering the question.
I don’t answer questions, because people upvote wrong answers and vindictively downvote answers to the actual question (which is why everyone posts comments instead of answering, because you can’t down vote them for it).
People care more about karma than actually helping.
The quality issues are real, but really?
I care not at all if 90k+ karma folk leave. Just leave. If you don’t like what it is, go hang out somewhere else. Why are you there if you’re not trying to help people?
What I care about is the people patiently answering questions in a way that is correct, not antagonistic, not ducking off because it took more than 5 minutes and they can get better karma somewhere else.
…almost like, a dedicated support community who care about a topic. That’s a nice idea. You could probably find one of those for your topic of interest and get help there from nice people. That’s what I do now. The folk there are generally quite lovely, because they actually care.
The people on stack overflow, by and large, are not nice, do not care and won’t help you if you have any really hard problems to solve.
An AI would be just as good, if it had decently accurate answers.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everybody got what they wanted and it’s much “nicer” now (it won’t even let you comment “what have you tried?” anymore, for instance). Wouldn’t you know it, the front page is now full of low-quality, low-effort questions.
And yet I have no issues finding answers to my question when using a search engine. I'm sure if a slippery slope is detected, SO will change its policy back.
Why are you sure of that? They're all the way down the damn slope at this point, there's no cleaning it up. But ownership's metrics are not mine necessarily.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everybody got what they wanted and it’s much “nicer” now (it won’t even let you comment “what have you tried?” anymore, for instance). Wouldn’t you know it, the front page is now full of low-quality, low-effort questions.
I mostly no longer contribute to stack overflow. I don’t ask questions, because people take a very carefully explained, explicit question and post irrelevant stupid comments on it (“why are you doing this?”) instead of answering the question. I don’t answer questions, because people upvote wrong answers and vindictively downvote answers to the actual question (which is why everyone posts comments instead of answering…
> An AI would be just as good, if it had decently accurate answers.
Well, this reminds me of "if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle."
Failing to clean up bad questions is encouraging all the bad behavior you're talking about, since answering yet another question from someone who couldn't be bothered to write his own regex is an easy 25 points that nobody will ever look at again.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mostly no longer contribute to stack overflow. I don’t ask questions, because people take a very carefully explained, explicit question and post irrelevant stupid comments on it (“why are you doing this?”) instead of answering the question. I don’t answer questions, because people upvote wrong answers and vindictively downvote answers to the actual question (which is why everyone posts comments instead of answering…
> An AI would be just as good, if it had decently accurate answers. Well, this reminds me of "if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle." Failing to clean up bad questions is encouraging all the bad behavior you're talking about, since answering yet another question from someone who couldn't be bothered to write his own regex is an easy 25 points that nobody will ever look at again.
Does it help any of the issues I mentioned?
Or would those people be happier if they just had their questions answered?
The answerers with their karma; happy! The askers with their answers: happy.
The only “losers” are people who hoard their karma… because (I guess?) now other people are getting karma? …and I just do not care about those people.
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#48I've asked this before, but is having a domain name with someone else's business name in it allowed? The answer I was given last time was you can buy it it but you might not get to keep it. Still, I can't help but think it would be inevitable legal trouble.
100% chance that stackoverflow will be sending nasty notes to the author (who appears to live in the US). 100% chance he'll have to take it down or change the name. You really can't use the exact name of the people you are cloning. Even something like "stackrobot" would risky. Safest thing is to not use any words from the original product.
Call it SObot, as in Stack Overflow Robot, but without using the name “Stack Overflow”.
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#49Man. What an absolute GENIUS way to get people to not post ChatGPT answers. Just put them there from there from the start. "Burn the boats"
GPT output isn’t deterministic though?