"In addition, we find significant declines in posting by users of all experience levels, from novice to expert. These results suggest that ChatGPT is displacing various Stack Overflow posts, including high-quality content."

Oh, yes, that may be TRUE on StackOverflow, because it is a piece of crap. Many times I have searched for answers online and came across a StackOverflow link, and I knew the answer to the question. However, I was unable to post a reply, because the moderators have either shut down the post or I was unable to post for some other reason. PerlMonks is different, because here you can post a reply to an old question from 10-20 years ago, and when someone posts the right answer or a right solution, that brings up the quality of the thread. But StackOverflow is not designed like that. I feel like it's designed to fulfill the desire of control freaks who are called "moderators" who love shutting down conversations and just do whatever they want like little tyrants. It's so they can go to bed at night and have a nice dream, like a dog who feels satisfied because he was able to bark at 3 different mailmen today and scared them to death. Such a fulfilling life! StackOverflow is a just a place where these little wannabe dictators can have fun. I hate StackOverflow, because it's not designed to bring out the best from people. People with good solutions often can't even post their answer. So, when somebody says that there's a decline in posts on StackOverflow, that's because that website is a corrupt design, not because people are intimidated by ChatGPT or become lazy with ChatGPT or just don't want to post the right answer.

((What I have noticed is that often ChatGPT gives nicely formatted answers. One time someone asked a question about hard drives and partition tables, and I wrote a very detailed long answer, and then somebody accused me of copying the answer from ChatGPT. I wasn't sure whether to take this as a compliment or as an insult. If people give an answer, and it appears like a ChatGPT response, then that might discourage them from writing nice long answers. For example, I decided not to write very long elaborate reponses to people, because they might think that I copied the answer from ChatGPT which took me 1 minute or less, when in fact it took me almost 3 hours to write that response. So, it's not worth the effort if people are going to accuse me of copying the answer. But the thing about ChatGPT is that sometimes (or often) its answers lack substance or depth. So, you can maybe tell that something was computer-generated when it's very nicely worded but too general. But I think, that having a ChatGPT repsonse to PerlMonks questions would be a good starting point. Like it would encourage people to add to it or correct it. I feel it would foster conversation and bring more out of people UNLIKE at StackOverflow which is a sh*t website.))

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