They have a few more if you turn showdead on. All about y’all.

Almost makes you wonder if they're the sparkfun ceo and perpetuating that asinine feud.

Well, yeah. Starting from absolute scratch is a lot harder than adapting something that already exists to new conditions.

It’s not just scale. Do you accept user generated content? If so, more of a target.

Stack Overflow was outside of the Cloudflare network for years, and anti-abuse was maybe 3 or 4 full-time jobs – much of which still needs to be done, because Cloudflare's anti-bot protection hasn't actually stopped it. Most UGC sites are not as big as Stack Overflow was at its peak.

Most UGC sites also don't have a horde of volunteer mods voting to close/delete things.

I'm referring specifically to the activities of Charcoal (https://charcoal-se.org/) and their Stack Exchange staff counterparts, taken together. This is about large-scale platform abuse, of the sort that Cloudflare is alleged to prevent (but doesn't, really), not the more mundane (and laborious) task of manual quality control.

Yes? Cloudflare doesn't replace moderators. At all. It only allegedly filters bot generated content, it doesn't filter user generated content and doesn't even intend to.

Please read their last sentence again and think about how much it understates the difference between stack overflow in its prime and a normal website. Also the "much of which still needs to be done".

He’s not really evading instability.

He’s evading consequences for causing it.

You think a major tech titan noping out to Argentina after burning down the system isn’t an interesting phenomenon?

Sure, but he'll have optimized those away already.

History sure rhymes.

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> And he’s not the first German to have found sanctuary in Argentina!

One might think that, if one was entirely unaware of the on-the-ground situation in the DRC for the past few decades.

If you build a bridge, the engineers aren't the one doing the welding and crane operation and bolts and digging holes and whatnot.

They're the ones checking that work matches the plan.