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by LordShredda 1099 days ago
25% of that traffic was asking questions answered by a glorified markov chain. I dont think stackoverflow lost any valuable users or interaction unless they're looking for newbies with syntax errors to flood the place.
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> newbies with syntax errors to flood the place

I think they are looking for that. As long as they read the ads, they don't care how good at programming they are. It's a "web property", not a programming contest ;)