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hakunin ◴[] No.43929104[source]
My most recent (nearly 3 years ago) StackOverflow story:

I posted a question[1]. Got some answers, but not quite complete. Then someone came along and provided a good detailed answer. A couple of upvotes later, that answer got deleted by Community Bot. I voted to undelete it, but it still needs another vote to undelete. So I ended up copying it into my own notes blog[2].

I'm not sure why the best answer was deleted. It would've been a loss if it wasn't preserved somewhere I think.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/73954228/155351

[2]: https://notes.max.engineer/creating-common-interfaces-in-gol...

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1. ayhanfuat ◴[] No.43931573[source]
That user was using AI to autogenerate answers. Most of his answers posted in a certain period were deleted in bulk. If you think this was not something AI generated then you can raise a flag for it to be undeleted https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/430072
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2. hakunin ◴[] No.43932619[source]
Yeah, looking at it today I do smell the AI. Nearly 2.5 years ago I had no experience to suspect it. I'm less annoyed with it getting deleted now, but it was still a useful and relevant explanation at the time.