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Discussion on: Has Stack Overflow Become An Antipattern?

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Jason C. McDonald

Are you sure they're using a bot? I did dupe-flag triage for quite a long time, and there are carefully crafted false positive tests in place to trick bots and ensure reviewers are paying attention. If anything, those false positive tests are a little too overzealous, as every week, at least one reviewer would post on Meta about being incorrectly locked out.

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Peter Flynn

No, I said "unless they are actually using a bot" — I have no idea if they are or not. But almost every day I would see a question marked DUP and when I followed the link, it wasn't a duplicate at all, but a question about a different aspect of the same problem that would not be answered by the linked question.