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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here
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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Earlier today I edited my (small) set of Stack Overflow posts to add the sentence "I do not consent to my words being used to train OpenAI" to the end. Within hours, all these edits were reversed and I got a warning email for "removing or defacing content". I did not remove any content. If this small sentence is "defacing", it is a very minor defacement. In no way was the experience of other users made worse by me adding one sentence.

To Stack Overflow, you are not a person. You are "content".
Hello, We're writing in reference to your Stack Overflow account: https://stackoverflow.com/users/6582253/mcc You have recently removed or defaced content from your posts. Please note that once you post a question or answer to this site, those posts become part of the collective efforts of others who have also contributed to that content. Posts that are potentially useful to others should not be removed except under extraordinary circumstances. Even if the post is no longer useful to the original author, that information is still beneficial to others who may run into similar problems in the future - this is the underlying philosophy of Stack Exchange.
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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Not only does Stack Overflow say you don't have a right to remove your words from Stack Overflow, according to Stack Overflow, you don't even have the right to decide what words Stack Overflow publishes under your name.
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Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉 @martin_piper@mastodon.social
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@mcc according to the creative commons agreement you don't have the right to remove content which would cause others to lose access to what you wrote.
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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist
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@martin_piper @mcc No, according to the Creative Commons agreement, the license may not be revoked, which means it still applies if the content stops being distributed (in other terms, it is removed), nothing says that you can't remove it.
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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist
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@martin_piper @mcc Lmao this loser blocked me so I can't reply to him, but he's wrong, as stated by section 6c of the CC BY-SA used by StackOverflow: "the Licensor may also offer the Licensed Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the Licensed Material at any time".
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