• alternativeninja@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This doesn’t tell us much without also including the quality of the posts. Are we sure this isn’t just idiots who ask stupid question that can be found on Google over and over not doing that now that they have chatgpt

  • gencha@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    SO is a shithole, just like Reddit. All the work is done by volunteers. When it was time to cash out with the platform, they also did several things to fuck with their community. I’ve contributed quite a bit to the trilogy sites, and served as a moderator. I regret every second of it. But at least a few people got rich in the process.

  • holycrap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think this has as much to do with Google being shit at finding stuff lately as it does llms like chatGPT

    • Calyhre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You can even see the decline in posts and votes before GPT became mainstream. This definitely look more like search engine failing to get rid of those cheap copycats.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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          1 year ago

          On Google and on Duck Duck Go too. On DDG you can’t get rid of the over-optimized websites anymore even if you use -“website name”. Luckily -site:address still works.

          • cschreib@programming.dev
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            1 year ago

            That’s crazy. Google/DDG bloat from SEO websites had already driven me out a while ago, so I hadn’t noticed. I’ve been using Kagi for a few months now, and I find I can trust my search results again. Being able to permanently downgrade or even block a given website is an awesome feature, I would recommend it just for that.

      • zatanas@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Agreed. For me, making it so that the search engine ignores -string was one of the biggest set backs.

  • danhab99@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    IDK what shitoverflow gets out of being so fucking toxic. I asked one dumb question and I’m basically banned from posting on the website.

    It feels like they’re trying to be a sort of “wikipedia” of every programming problem and solution. The problem is that eventually everything will be posted, and everyone will be banned from the website.

    • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The problem is that eventually everything will be posted, and everyone will be banned from the website.

      I don’t think they see that as a problem, that’s the goal