>>What's wrong with the current approach of posting a link to the duplicate?
Simple. The user's problem is not solved. The whole point of StackOverflow was to help people get answers to their questions.
If you fail at this, you lose your relevance.
>>Users with 3000+ reputations (so not only what many people percieve as sort of barons on stackoverflow) can vote to reopen. And three votes are enough to reopen a question.
You don't have to under go these rituals in front of LLMs just to get your problem solved.
Even until now, StackOverflow had no competition, so it didn't matter. Now that there are alternatives. People won't put up with user hostile experience.
Simple. The user's problem is not solved. The whole point of StackOverflow was to help people get answers to their questions.
If you fail at this, you lose your relevance.
>>Users with 3000+ reputations (so not only what many people percieve as sort of barons on stackoverflow) can vote to reopen. And three votes are enough to reopen a question.
You don't have to under go these rituals in front of LLMs just to get your problem solved.
Even until now, StackOverflow had no competition, so it didn't matter. Now that there are alternatives. People won't put up with user hostile experience.