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    "..why should any of us bother.." Well, people contributed in the past and some will probably also contribute in the future. Maybe they don't care about all that. The future will show what will happen to SO. Commented May 10, 2024 at 7:42
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    "why should any of us bother to contribute our time" — exactly. Which will cause the website to degrade over time. ChatGPT may train on the content that is here today but will it be able to answer the question about the new framework that people will create in 3 years? If there's no answer from users on SO anymore, I highly doubt it. I don't understand why SO made that partnership decision... Commented May 10, 2024 at 8:21
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    We contribute because, despite time and time again being shown how stupid we are, we continue being stupid. Commented May 14, 2024 at 8:11
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    My upvote to this post for letting me know of codidact. This post needs to promote so everyone will be aware of this and jump this sunken ship soon. Once we stop using it, they won't have the data to sell it. I think that's the only solution for this imo. Commented May 14, 2024 at 10:55
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    When this place was first started, they promised not to give out content without our attribution and that our content would never be behind a pay wall. Broken promises.... Commented May 14, 2024 at 20:04
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    I don't know about you folks, but the reason I post questions and answers on this site is so that my answers can help people, as a payback for the fact that I often find answers (from other people) on this site to problems that I have. I frankly don't care if the company manages to make money, even lots of money, using what I write, as long as the questions and answers I provide remain publically available to help people who would benefit from them. So that's "why I bother". If I wanted to get credit for or monetize text that I had written, I would have posted it on my own website, not here. Commented May 20, 2024 at 22:17