I feel the nostalgia kicks in. I found many of my old samples and mods here, many forgotten. And had no idea that the samples was used by so many. Guess floppy swapping was more efficient than it appeared to be :)
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Also because after I deleted my account all of my 2000+ answers are now attributed some user012345, not my username.
Seem they do whatever they want with the license. They just changed it from v3 to v4 of the cc by-sa with attribution required and without mine and many other's permission...
> "Bigotry of any kind. Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all. (Those are just a few examples; when in doubt, just don't.)"
"etc." => politics, in this case back-ref "Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups" as not everyone agrees with the political message(s) posted, and the use of the platform users signed up on for entirely different purposes.
This is the post Joel Spolsky posted, breaking the user rules that stated among other things that political posts where not allowed:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/297859/can-stack-ov...
Then, a couple of years later -
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take...
at the same time Sam Altman posted his (since I mentioned Y Combinator, but in fairness, at his own blog):
https://blog.samaltman.com/time-to-take-a-stand
These are political, ideological driven posts. Not everyone agrees with the political content; the point being, whether you do or not, this doesn't belong on a site such as SO.
And the international agenda I am refering to is in particular United Nations' agenda 2030 which is also rooted in ideology, and is what these companies are working with, directly or indirectly:
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingo...
Since that time it has been going downhill - not that it hasn't had problem before that. But I noticed a significant change in the "vibe" of the community from that point on.
The problem is that this can not be easily fixed as it require change of convictions. It's not about community anymore, but political wars intertwined with international agendas (which includes Y Combinator too btw).
Personally, I passed the 100k milestone, got my mug and t-shirt and deleted my account.