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from 10b0t0mized: I miss the days when I had to go through a humiliation ritual before getting my questions answered.
Now days you can just ask your questions from an infinitely patient entity, AI is really terrible.
It’s not LLMs — see the peak at 2013. They aggressively started closing any “duplicate” questions around then. The whole premise was that experts were supposed to answer questions for clout that would bolster their resume, but after getting silenced a few times, why would they come back? And anyone with the temerity to ask a question that was asked (with or without a good answer, ten years ago) would also never come back after getting shut down.
They couldn’t decide if they were a forum or Wikipedia and became neither.