this for me was one of the truly liberating parts of LLMs for me: simply being able to ask a question and get a straight answer without having to run the gauntlet of why I shouldn't be doing what I am trying to do in the first place. The friction of trying to explain why I still wanted to do it that way deterred me from asking so many questions.
replyI also had to deal with a concerted effort by an ex-employer to downvote all of my questions for several months.
replyI’m not shedding tears over SO. It had a good run.