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New comment by gfhifd42 in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

gfhifd42 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:47:18 +0000

I don't have anything to prove to you.

You are the toxicity I'm talking about. You've added zero value to the discussion. I've offered value.

You attack my account age and I've already said why it's not old.

Because idgaf.

New comment by gfhifd42 in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

gfhifd42 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:00:46 +0000

I literally said I've been here longer than someone who has been here since 2013 so you attack my profile age.

This is the toxic destruction of hn I'm talking about.

You are the toxic one. You offer negative value.

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gfhifd42 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:58:42 +0000

Nah. Farther back in time and psychologically deeper. Its in my, very short, comment history.

They told their community their motivation was to combat the selfish monetization of digital sharecroppers and then they monetized their digital sharecroppers.

They are frauds and eventually frauds are exposed and they exposed themselves for $1.8billion.

And SO it collapsed.

But thanks for speaking for me. Albeit incorrectly, ironically.

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gfhifd42 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:43:22 +0000

Because you don't want to hear it, that's all. It's not toxic, it's idgaf.

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gfhifd42 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:42:19 +0000

I know because i click your username and see your email and website.

Click on my name you get nothing.

Yours is full of hope of someone reaching out to you. Mine is idgaf.

I don't need to defend the status quo. I don't want karma pOints.

I want integrity.

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gfhifd42 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:43:06 +0000

He and Jeff made it abundantly clear their mission was to destroy the sex change site because that site was immoral for monetizing the benevolence of the community who answered the questions.

"Knowledge should be free" they said. "You shouldn't make money off stuff like this," they said.

Plenty of links and backstory in my other comments.

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gfhifd42 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:07:07 +0000

It doesn't have anything to do with LLMs. It has to do with shifting one's focus from doing good things to making money. Joel did that, and SO failed because of it.

Joel promised the answering community he wouldn't sell SO out from under them, but then he did.

And so the toxicity at the top trickled down into the community.

Those with integrity left the community and only toxic, selfcentered people remained to destroy what was left in effort to salvage what little there was left for themselves.

Mods didn't dupe questions to help the community. They did it to keep their own answers at the top on the rankings.