Already answered, closed
POV you’ve just clicked on the only relevant-looking search result:
“Duplicate question, use search.”
There are so many times I’ve tried to look up an answer to a technical problem I had. And I click the top result and it’s a forum post. Someone asked the exact question I was looking for, and every reply is: “already answered,” “learn to use the search box,” and “wow your’e dubm for not already knowing this you n00b.”
Search engine doesn’t know, it just sees a thread with the search terms and lots of engagement so it becomes the top search result. I wish everyone who acted that way on forums a very pleasant long walk down a very short pier.
If closing as “already answered” it should really be "already answered by [link to other thread]
The linked and solved question: does not actually answer my question, or the answer is for an outdated version of the software I’m using
L + skill issue + just Google it + downvoted to oblivion
Is ChatGPT already able to mimic SO behaviour by answering “please research before asking dumb questions”, “this should be obvious” and “closing, already answered somewhere else”?
posts a link to something completely unrelated
It does do this. I’ll admit I do sometimes use copilot.microsoft.com, and if you check the source it links, its usually completely unrelated.
And the dreaded “why would you want to do that?”
You’re asking [A] but have you tried addressing [B] instead. It’s unrelated BTW
I would enjoy an AI to call me stupid for my code and a “here’s how to do it properly” attached to it.
Too bad it just keeps hallucinating python libs that don’t exist.
I just wonder what the LLMs will be trained on once they put everything else out of business.
I’ve been really worried about this. You can re-train a smarter model on old data, but what happens when our software changes and those old answers are obsolete? Then the AIs won’t be accurate, and we’ve killed our tried-and-true tool to address the issue.
Since the AIs would be used to gather that information, they would learn from their previous prompts.
So if any AI user had that issue before, the AI would know how they solved it since they helped them solve it.
So I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
This is just so fucking nice to see.
I felt like a little kid in high school there, and the users were the kind important-acting assholes who took out their insecurities on those with less than 500 points. As StackOverflow dies, it is I who shall rest in peace.
“Read The Fucking FAQ!”
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The mods and experts don’t really care that newbies are asking questions on chatgpt. It makes the mods jobs easier and newbies tend to ask either duplicate questions, or ask out of scope questions.
Stack exchange the company on the other hand care very much that new users come and stay but they’ve apparently decided to pursue this in the worst way possible, which means the long time users really aren’t happy to let them.
The company also has a history of completely disregarding it’s moderators which, like reddit, are unpaid, but unlike reddit, are elected community members (also, their privileges are already available to them beforehand, they just gain the ability to use them without a vote).
Very clearly laid out what i was trying to do in a batch file, the desired goal and the syntax i was having issues with.
Fucking responses i got was like trying to use yahoo search. Reading comprehension is absolute bullshit on that site.
Wait. They actually tried to gelp you rather than closing your thread and pointing you to an irrelavent one?
Closed for duplicate
they wanted the points for answering. didn’t mean it had to be a valid answer…
Stackoverflow people see you and your questions the same way you see people on github asking for the exe.
They are justified to some extend.
You don’t treat a newbie poorly for doing something improperly. You educate them.
As it wasn’t mentioned before: GitHub Discussions also launched in 2020
why it so many peeps here swearing?.. >~<
That’s enough Internet for today, grandma
I can’t tell you how many times on stack overflow I see someone responding “why don’t you do it this way, that requires you to use a completely different programming language and refactor your code base”.
Motherfucker, I need to have this ticket done tomorrow or the customer support rep helping the client is going to cry.
