| Their rules said duplicates should be deleted, at least most of the time, so they were. While it might be nice for extra useful content from the dup to be merged into the original page, that would be a lot of work and much of the time there isn't enough to make it worthwhile (or any). > for literally no reason Other than the reason that it was their site and that is what they chose to do. While some criticism of SO is certainly valid, I find a lot of it boils down to "how dare they run their site the way they want instead of the way that I would prefer". > Went all in on my own website after that. Can't delete my stuff now. This is a good solution. Everything I've written on there that ended up being something I might want to preserve, and similarly useful answers to mine and others queries, I have archived for future reference too¹, in case the sites die, or that particular content does, or otherwise becomes inaccessible to me. -------- [1] though in my case not online as I never got around to that, maybe I will one day, when I've been sacked for being inefficient because I refuse to have Claude do my job for me and I have plenty of time on my hands! |
Welp, they can go to hell along with their site. AI is better than stack exchange anyways.
Everybody's got boundaries, and they managed to cross mine. I can deal with rudeness and toxicity just fine. I can deal with moderators enforcing the rules. Straight up deleting stuff is simply not acceptable though, and I couldn't care less how they justify it.