This is a great way to make everyone angry. People asking questions will be angry because the bot okayed the question, why did the mods close it without discus

This is a great way to make everyone angry. People asking questions will be angry because the bot okayed the question, why did the mods close it without discussion? Mods will be angry because why did the bot okay stupid questions? And it doesn't even go into the meat of the problem - stack overflow is supposed to allow everyone, including its competitors, free access to all the questions and answers. The questions and answers belong to the users, not to the CEO of stack overflow. My conspiracy theory is Joel Spolsky saw the writing on the wall long ago: > The company has been growing, too. Today we are profitable. We have almost 300 amazing employees worldwide and booked $70m in revenue last year. We have talent, advertising, and software products. The SaaS products (Stack Overflow for Teams and Enterprise) are growing at 200% a year. That speaks to the fact that we’ve recruited an incredibly talented team that has produced such fantastic results. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2019/03/28/the-next-ceo-of-stack-overflow/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2019/03/28/the-next-ceo-of-st... I think this hn comment summarizes it best https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36890672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36890672 -- > In May I wrote about Stack Overflow's business, which lost $42 million over 6 months and had just laid off 10% of its employees. Since then, the company's fiscal year-end results came out. Despite growing revenue, it lost $84 million over the year ending on March 31, 2023. Thank god Wikipedia isn’t run like Stack Overflow. As an end user, they have pretty much the same value proposition: user generated answers to my questions. Wikipedia is still doing well, meanwhile it seems SO is constantly being driven off a cliff by bimbos in management. Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn. SO is an information repository. They need to accept that stop trying to “enhance” it with more crap because they don’t realize their median user is a junior dev who really just needs to serialize a Java object and isn’t going to pay or put up with any LLM-generated nonsense. SO doesn’t need large language models. What they really need is a better model of what answers are good, what answers are outdated, and what answers should be expanded to include more info (and sometimes, what answers should be slimmed down a bit). Turn the top answer to popular questions into a wiki so that everyone can update it. And then add backlinks for questions which were closed for being “duplicates”. It solves so many problems SO has. Another thing. This “comments aren’t for extended discussion” nonsense needs to go too. Any question could easily include a Reddit-style discussion tab to facilitate discussion. I’m sure much of it would be at least as valuable as the answers themselves.