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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

This appears to violate the creative commons license under which Stack Overflow content is posted.

When the author asked about this:

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question. Of course, they did draft a letter which credited the action to other events that occurred weeks before where I merely upvoted contributions from Luigi and bountied a few of his questions.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

Inspector Javert aah behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 158 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What can Stack Overflow's motivation possibly be to strip Luigi's account? Are their private equity owners in cahoots with health insurance executives?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (7 children)

It's pretty standard when a highly-publicized murder suspect's online profiles are discovered. Platform admins will typically disable/hide their accounts from the public while investigations/trials are ongoing. This is hardly unique to Luigi.

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A connection I may be inventing comes to mind: all the CEOs making million dollar donations to the new administration in the US.

Basically, show you’re on the side of “law and order” and hope you’re not caught up in any purges.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 days ago

Kiss the ring.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Stack Overflow fucking sucks, it's dead.

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[–] [email protected] 195 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Stack Overflow has been toxic for a long time already. It's one of the things that a lot of people seem pleased to see AI devour.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I've read it is still well valued because people will keep asking questions there when LLM can't answer, so they remain a precious source of post LLM curated Q&A.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (14 children)

...for now.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Until it's just AIs answering questions asked by other AIs while human admins block human accounts..

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Is there a mirror for Stacks content? I've been concerned for some time that they are a vital resource that a corporation could ruin at any moment.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Stack Overflow seems to be doing a prompt job of that already

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[–] [email protected] 211 points 2 days ago (2 children)

https://stackoverflow.co/company/leadership/

[–] [email protected] 158 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Headquarters seems to be:

70 White Lion Street, London, England, N1 9PP

To send all your angry letters too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Definitely not any kind of HQ. I'd be surprised if more than one or two people go there for Stack Exchange. Mostly remote employees?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I used to live in that neighborhood. That must just be one of those places that gives people an address that looks fancy methinks