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> My understanding is that the Creative Commons license gives Codidact the right to repost content from Stack Exchange as long as it credits the originals

Yes, the Creative Commons licensed knowledge is free and can be displayed anywhere as long as you abide by the conditions of the license. Any objection of the author after the original publication to sharing the knowledge is ineffectual.

However, one of the other main points raised seems to have been the creation of fake or ghost user profiles, i.e. user profiles that looked like they would have been created by real persons with activity over many years, while that was not the case. They might even have earned reputation. These user profiles have a sentence "This user was automatically created as the author of content sourced from Stack Exchange." which may sound a bit odd if you assume that users must be real persons (then they cannot really get created).

It might be that this was simply the easiest way to import content from SE, but maybe there should be a way to not count the fake/ghost users as users but as something different and make the difference better visible in the user interface.

Of course users can become inactive at any time, but these users have never been active at all, so they aren't really users in the sense that they never used the service, I'd argue.

I think there is something about that second point, we should not continue to create user profiles automatically anymore (if we ever import more data) and we should think about ways how to demote the affected user profiles. We basically have content that has not been written by a human user of the network and we should have ways to show that and include it in the workflow.