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~1.188525416 is more than twice your purported "7% of dedicated answerers leaving", and I see no data to support that that problem is any fault of the moderators or curators in enacting ChatGPT policies. If anything, from what I've been reading on Reddit, people are going to ChatGPT to ask their questions instead of Stack Overflow.

I see no data to support that that problem is any fault of the moderators or curators in enacting ChatGPT policies. If anything, from what I've been reading on Reddit, people are going to ChatGPT to ask their questions instead of Stack Overflow.

Even if frequent-answerers are leaving as you claim (more on that later), all else being constant, that has no effect on the number of available answers to other answerers. If there are N new questions per day, and one answerer leaves, there are still N new questions per day. There will likely be more unanswered questions per day, but that's not your argument, and even if it were, that's a pretty vapid statement. And all else is not constant: Question influx rate is declining rapidly.

Even if frequent-answerers are leaving as you claim (more on that later), all else being constant, that has no effect on the number of available answers to other answerers. If there are N new questions per day, and one answerer leaves, there are still N new questions per day. Each of those N questions are still available to each answerer. There will likely be more unanswered questions per day, but that's not your argument, and even if it were, that's a pretty vapid statement. And all else is not constant: Question influx rate is declining rapidly.

	2016-01-01 to 2022-11-30	2022-12-01 to 2023-06-12	% change
answerers	-1.143154562	-4.850514565	4.243096014
askers	-0.3719258563	-1.875632304	5.043027454

~1.188525416 more than twice your purported "7% of dedicated answerers leaving", and I see no data to support that that problem is any fault of the moderators or curators in enacting ChatGPT policies. If anything, from what I've been reading on Reddit, people are going to ChatGPT to ask their questions instead of Stack Overflow.

	2016-01-01 to 2022-11-30	2022-12-01 to 2023-06-12	change factor
answerers	-1.143154562	-4.850514565	4.243096014
askers	-0.3719258563	-1.875632304	5.043027454

~1.188525416 is more than twice your purported "7% of dedicated answerers leaving", and I see no data to support that that problem is any fault of the moderators or curators in enacting ChatGPT policies. If anything, from what I've been reading on Reddit, people are going to ChatGPT to ask their questions instead of Stack Overflow.