Post #2792534

@millihertz@oldbytes.space Started reading the responses out of morbid curiosity, and yes, every one if them should have their posting privileges revoked for a year, maybe indefinitely. "Why do you want this?" "That is not relevant to answering this simple question." "Your worries are overblown. [posts pile of irrelevant stats]" "This is also not an answer to the simple question asked." "I, who do not have your use case or concerns, do not have whatever problem has prompted this question." "That's nice; I'm happy for you." Once upon a time I engaged in some subtle passive-aggressive entertainment on Stack Overflow by making charitable assumptions and directly answering beginner questions that the neckbeards batted away either with demands for needless MWEs, second-guessing the questions, or otherwise typing something gratuitously demeaning when they should have just moved on. Basically, I was constantly demonstrating that answering a question that was imperfectly asked was faster and easier than whatever smug and officious waste of effort they regularly shat out. At some point I decided that providing free content for SO was not a good use of my time and economic power, especially when they decided to violate everyone's consent and use the site to train AI.