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Proposed resolution : Quoting cannot be called plagiarism
I have answered this in my post.
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@Ramhound: It's not my intention to point fingers at anyone. I'm trying to open a discussion with the moderators which might in the future prevent such unpleasantness as I experienced.
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Understanding the flawed audit review system
SU is perhaps more vulnerable to this, because the best answer is not always as clear as for example in SE. Personally, I've given up on reviewing a long time ago, because I didn't always agree with the "right" answer and was penalized as a result. It became too tiresome to check if a post was real or a test.
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Is this refusal to accept an answer aligned with community standards?
In many cases it's not the lack of gratitude, but the fact that new users might be clueless about how things work here.
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Do the anti spam measures need to be increased?
@Mokubai: I wonder whether Charcoal uses a database of spams as voted by users that don't come up with its checks in order to extend its knowledge, as I noticed that spammers tend to replicate their posts, so a real-time database could help. Another question is whether Charcoal is limited to one spam flag only.
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Do the anti spam measures need to be increased?
Excellent idea - limiting new users to one post a day will help a lot with these spammers that are now bombarding our site. It will at least slow them for the time that they need to create multiple accounts. It won't help still against bots that can create multiple accounts automatically.
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General moderators' strike
@Ramhound: I have seen answers where ChatGPT got creative and invented commands that don't exist. Its algorithm of chaining words selected by frequency of appearance can give strange results.
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General moderators' strike
I have seen on SU a user (account since removed) who answered in a very short time 5 posts, all answers full of weakly related information but with no solution for the poster or just plain wrong. They even got upvoted because they seemed informative. Allowing ChatGPT will mean that anybody can answer as many posts as he has energy for doing copy-paste, and the upvotes will surely exceed the downvotes. This for sure will mean pure data pollution for SU.
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My experience with ChatGPT answers on our site has shown that it has just about the same chance of coming up with a good answer as an infinite number of monkeys typing randomly on typewriters for an infinite time. I detect such answers by the fact that they simply make no sense, although they seem well-written.
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Are “evolving answers” supported on Super User?
My answer that was deleted was in a post where the question was how to find what the problem was. The moderator apparently wanted me to immediately tell that the problem was RAM, rather than give a procedure that could locate the problem. I think that this moderator was off-subject.
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Are “evolving answers” supported on Super User?
@ArrayBolt3: I agree. I have lots of experience here, and comments are confusing for posters that are used for forums like redit where there's no distinction between answers and comments. I've had cases where posters waited for answers and didn't read comments, so I had to post a "Not an answer" answer to get their attention. Other posters lost track when there were more than one person posting comments. So answers are not just for reputation, they are also for communication.
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Are “evolving answers” supported on Super User?
@music2myear: Thanks for taking the time, but I can't understand something: My answer was not about RAM, it was a general procedure for locating the reason for the crashes, software and/or hardware. The software part didn't pan out, so I added a hardware part that found the RAM problem. My orientation may be different : I'm looking to give advice to help solve posters' problems, which is why deleting an answer that could help because of format or wording seems a shame. The emphasis on format might diverge from our prime reason for being here.
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