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by layer8 4 days ago
Some commenters are missing that this is a reference to https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454.
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> Locked. There are disputes about this answer’s content being resolved at this time [sic]

And also

> Nov, 2020

And then, StackOverflow asks itself why it looses users.

The answer is actually from 2009. As long as HTML/XML doesn’t suddenly become a regular language, I think it’s pretty timeless.
It's a 17 year old joke, maybe one of the most famous on stackoverflow for the aging engineers out there. No one wants new "funny" edits on it.
Good ol' appeal to emotion devoid of technical argument.