But why would a poster object to their posts being shared by others if it is helping people as intended? I don't think anyone has great loyalty to Billionaire Stack Overflow. I guess it all boils down to the posters ego. I think a lot of people would be a little horrified if they knew how much SO was making off their free labour.

Or how SO has appropriated their work with the clause:" perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and store" their work.

I'm assuming that if someone posted on Stack, then they are okay with that content being here. But the problem as I understand it is the third-party scraper that is posting thousands of YouTube videos with the text of scraped questions/answers.

That's kind of scummy, no matter how you look at it. It's also (according to one comment above, that I probably won't scroll back to find) against the YouTube ToS. And it's a violation of your copyright when the scraper posts your text with attribution.

Someone mentioned complaining to Stack about it, but Stack can't/shouldn't do anything about the scraper. It's your copyright to enforce, not theirs. Stack is happy since you've already licensed it to them.

It is nice if a publisher gives me credit for my work, but I am happy enough as long as that work helps others. I consider everything I produce at this time in my life as public domain.

I'm still trying to figure out why it is okay for Stack Overflow to make 35 million per year using free labor, but sleazy for anyone else to profit off that same free labour?

I find it hard to believe that Roel Van de Paar is raking in big bucks with his site. The data looks like it is coming in from all over the place, not just from AU.

oh god. Now why are the rest of the messages removed?

@RandomPerson I removed them as they lost their context

@RandomPerson @jokerdino told you why also RE: the chat msgs.

also...

(removed)

just because :)

@Zanna OK. I don't think it was necessary to delete. Anyway, I am fine with them being deleted, for now.

@ThomasWard OK.

@ThomasWard I didn't get you.

People who are suspended might not be happy about it being talked about in public. If they feel like talking about it when they return, then fine

Ok Zanna :)

:)

@RandomPerson runnning gag meme from the ancient days. whenever there was a "removed posts" chain we sometimes just post "(removed)" as a joke. Not targeted at anyone, just ancient AUGR memes.

With respect to the precedent, my messages weren't deleted when I spoke about Gopal. So, I guess today we have set a new precedent.

@ThomasWard oh.. OK.

@Zanna OK. When's the trial starting then?

@Zanna why so?

@RandomPerson when @jokerdino does it XD

@RandomPerson I don't remember that

you got your replies already for that

there's no direct correlation on any policy to 'delete' the posts here

but the answer you'll get RE: any individaul user being suspended is "That's not information we discuss with the general public"

whether the posts get deleted or not

the context is different. That day, I asked the reason behind Gopal's suspension. Today I didn't ask any reason. I just informed. Anyway, it's OK if you(as in any mod) disagree about me posting in chat about suspended users.

@Zanna mods can delete fellow mods' messages. that's funny..

I don't see why a message written by a mod should be especially undeletable

arrrrgh now I've remembered that the site is being turned to goop by evil undeletable messages from Community♦

@Zanna mods can delete normal users' messages because mods are above us in the power pyramid. But two mods are on same level in a power pyramid.. so it should be undeletable by fellow mod.

all power to the people

@Zanna :)

@Zanna Context?

it's the review queues... now one is practically forced to leave an inane message in the mask of Community♦ when reviewing

those stupid messages can't be deleted by anyone

not even mods

they can't even be flagged

they can only be edited

by mods

🙁

when I'm allowed to delete them, I'm going to delete them ALL

haha..

@Zanna ... CMs have the power I think... :P

@Zanna Oh yes! Most of them are irrelevant

@ThomasWard oh haha well hopefully we'll be able to remove them soon

if not, I'll just suspend everyone from review muahahahHAHAHAHAHAH

@Zanna Thanks for the threat! Just kidding.

I'm also just kidding

we need reviews

:)

@Zanna But not reviewers o.O

haha we need reviewers

just not irrelevant indelible comments

— Gene Sharp

@Zanna so Community bot is at the top of the power pyramid.. 😂😂

The ultimate mod