Can we ban SO links please? Or at least add something to filter out posts with those links? Not a day goes by without someone copy-pasting their SO questions here, and it's getting fucking annoying.

haven't seen much of those here?
sure there some plz halp indians who try it here, but else? 🤷‍♂️

I see more homework dumps rather than SO links.

@Demolishun Let's see how far back DevRant api works...
https://devrant.com/rants/2521361
https://devrant.com/rants/2518408
https://devrant.com/rants/2515758
https://devrant.com/rants/2504896
https://devrant.com/rants/2495577
https://devrant.com/rants/2490373

That's from the last 500 rants (less than a week's worth), and there were weeks with way more such rants.

What we really should be scrubbing are the quora-style vague/2 word rants. Thankfully those don't last long. SNR is generally pretty strong here.

@hitko look if you're an active member of devRant and participate with delightful rants i don't see any problem if you ask a question once in a while.

In most cases those questions aren't about "help i can't solve bug x" but rather "hey guys how do you set up x and what was your experience?" And heck! a SO link question with a super edge case should have space here from time to time. devRant is about devLife and beeing in a pickle from time to time is part of devLive. 😃🧡

@heyheni this!

if a green dot adds a link I suspect it's homework, advertising, or some useless meme they didn't upload, sorry legit green dots but... spammers will be spammers.

If a user with 2k+ updoots posts a link or asks a dumb question, it's probably the communal opinion on X, rather then "how do I do X"

@hitko
1) ooh a link so far down the bottom of the meme style post, I would never of finished reading anyway.

2) a discussion, does this really count?

3) green dot found us, but didn't find google... I'll give you that one... there's a bot for that 😉

4) this belongs on SO

5) this is probably already on SO 😅

6) debatable - it's a cry for help when going insane.

@M1sf3t
But... Then we'd be SO 💀

@M1sf3t the first green dot post can't contain a link anymore, I learnt that the hard way,.

But maybe something like they reach 100++ (for example) also to reduce spam / meme bs, prevent images as well.... but when you think about it,
That starts a system like SO has which I despise 😅

it's prolly because people still think SO is a decent place to go for help and then when they're practically booted off the platform they come to a place known to help people...?