> Even if the pleasantries/signature were edited out of your question, is that so bad?

Yes.

Erasing the personal touch out of someone’s writings is erasing them.

Ironically, erasing that kind of stuff is likely very good good for training large language models.

>> Even if the pleasantries/signature were edited out of your question, is that so bad?

> Erasing the personal touch out of someone’s writings is erasing them.

Yeah, as I mentioned in the grandparent comment, I think the site was better thought of as a wiki of questions/answers than a forum. Including things like pleasantries/signatures on a wiki-adjacent site probably is not the right use for that kind of site. (Personally, I was incredibly frustrated by SO but for a very different reason - edits to questions or answers, etc. that fixed typos, pointing out that an answer's linked app had been down for years, etc. were often rejected.)