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Are you talking about Quora?

I read it to mean Stack Overflow, whose drop in traffic has been widely discussed. But it could be Quora or other sites--effectively validating OP's original point.

The drop of traffic to SO is due to LLM proliferation. Some people use LLM to get answers (trained on SO etc), other people use LLM to spam SO.

StackExchange has been going downhill since late 2019. A significant number of power users (moderators) have left and the writing has been on the wall for a number of years.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-...

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/394772/lets-talk-ab...

Most StackExchange sites are niche and just get fewer users naturally because topics are covered by other forums.

I'm a power user on SO with some moderation capabilities. There's no mods per se I think just people who have different functions enabled to them (editing questions, closing, review etc). Admittedly I don't moderate it much (never did)

I still use it daily as a lazy reference. Haven't noticed any decline apart from it having covered all topics so there's mostly nothing new left to ask. Which is the best thing that can happen to Q&A site

There are definitely actual moderators on the Stack Exchange sites.

And/or Stack

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