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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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] 189 points 1 day 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] 59 points 1 day ago (2 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] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That might be true if any human could reasonably ask a question there now. Ask a question, and you are likely going to see it removed for a variety of reasons.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (15 children)
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[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 day ago (11 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?

[–] brbposting 146 points 1 day ago (2 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] 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago

Kiss the ring.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His name was Robert Paulson. His name was Luigi Mangione.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His name was Luigi Mangione.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Luigi’s contributions to Stack Overflow are the exact opposite of the mindless chant in that scene. Don’t degrade him with comparison to Bob.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Luigi definitely didn't have bitch tits.

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