The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.

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.

  • @BazoogleEnglish
    -5•9 hours ago

    Plus AI is actually happy to answer your random questions, with an immediate response. Stack overflow will quickly become obsolete as AI gets better

    • @JcbAzPxEnglish
      11•7 hours ago

      AI is just regurgitating old stack overflow. It’s not going to get better.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•6 hours ago

        AI is going to get worse, while stack overflow will be superceded by better resources in the future.

        It would be pretty neat if Sal Kahn created an alternative, but that’s very different from his existing project.