Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8B (2021) (opens in new tab)

Yep. Enjoy your toxic, obsolete echo chamber!

for the buyer, yes. it's worthless now.

It was extremely weird to do things like that as a policy, since it was systemic and natural for a user to just post a question and not find what it might be related to. You just put in an automation to link up / coalesce questions together if they have enough similarity and that would catch most of the things they'd turn around and berate people for and completely avoid this issue by a change in structure. Or like, anything else that would have solved it.

> They used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults.

Yeah, it was a shitshow.

The thing i hated the most were mods rewriting your posts, because they didn't like the wording. Years after I am still salty and convinced it was a petty way to farm points or whatever.

I'm so glad that StackOverflow is dead.

now 99m and dropping each day - sell fast!

Wildly true. Purely anecdotal on my part, but in my experience the cooking stack exchange was just awful to even try to ask something on.

Surely all of SO has been ingested by the LLM training at this point.

Looking back it seems like a very bad deal.