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@Androidquery You found 10 different guides, so you've asked experts to write an 11th one especially for you? It looks like 10 experts already put some effort into addressing your problem, now it's your turn.
All answers that I suspected of being AI-generated were characterized by perfect English. In fact they read as if they were written by an English major who knows nothing about computers and is rephrasing top Google results into a bullet list. If a new account is spewing these out at a humanly impossible rate… That's pretty convincing evidence, if you ask me. If someone thinks an answer was written by AI because the language isn't great, then they probably don't know much about the current state of AI.
5 answers in 50 minutes. That's 10 minutes per answer on average and they're rather lengthy and written in good English. Maybe a skilled writer would be able to write such answer in 10 minutes, but to do that 5 times in a row is rather impossible. Plus they follow the format that ChatGPT tends to produce.
@n8te Sometimes it's undeserved, but sometimes indeed the comment is toxic. I've spent over 10 years on SU, I try to always leave a downvote comment unless it's something obvious and I recall only a couple indignant users.
"if this doesn't qualify as serial downvoting then I don't know what qualifies as serial downvoting" - I agree it sounds like you were serial downvoted, but that's just 5 votes. Received 38 downvotes on different posts in 4 minutes
I'm not sure where you got that impression from. I'm constantly frustrated by questions being closed unjustly (IMO), most often because OP dared to suggest that their problem may be solvable using software. On the other hand low quality questions relatively rarely remain unclosed.
@ZioBit Have you ever been to one of those "how to fix X" websites that list a bunch of very well written steps, but they're mostly generic or don't make sense for this problem and you're sure that the person who wrote that is completely clueless and just rewords top results from Google? If an answer is like that, but you can't find the original source, it's ChatGPT.
@JoepvanSteen That's true and I've left this comment numerous times myself. But I'm using it to motivate why the answer should be improved, not deleted. I dislike link-only answers too, but I think they can be helpful sometimes.
@JoepvanSteen In this case, yes, but in general I disagree. A link-only answer is more useful than no answer at all. It may not be up to our standards, but it's helpful if there's no better alternative. What's more, such answer can be improved even by another user who is willing to read through the link. IMO that alone is enough to not delete it.
