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20 questions linked to/from Open hostility from SE staff towards the community - trying to understand it
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Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?
The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no ...
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Why were the Code of Conduct changes received so negatively, and what can / could have been done to change that?
The announcement of the Code of Conduct changes had a score of -1922 (with 2371 downvotes). I can't remember a change announcement being received so negatively; it's an order of magnitude higher than (...
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Let’s improve our site navigation
A Release Candidate has been announced
A.k.a. the 2015 Questions to Answer Refactoring Konversion (QuARK)
A.k.a. the great cheese move of 2015.
TL:DR; we are looking to change the navigation of the ...
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Dear Stack Exchange: a statement and a letter from your moderators
Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.,
We know you know about this already, so we'll keep this brief. The past two weeks have been rough. Lots of moderators have lost confidence in you; for some, it was the final ...
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SE Inc. Director of Public Q&A retweets bad-faith, misrepresentative tweet
As we all know, SE Inc. has engaged in highly problematic and widely criticized actions against the SE community and specific moderators.
Earlier today (Oct 11th, 2019), Ms. Sara Chipps, "...
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What does constructive criticism of a design change look like?
Last week we rolled out the new network theme to several sites. Some of these sites had beautiful designs previously and now have a less striking look. Unsurprisingly, the response to these changes ...
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The problem with extrinsic motivation
TL;DR: Stack Exchange favors standard, fast, and complete answers at the expense of novel, creative, and excellent answers. This bias results directly from reputation ratings, badges and other ...
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The ship is sinking, but communication is down (need orders from the captain (CEO))
It looks like we have far more serious problems than just following the CoC in every thinkable correct way.
The engineer from the machine room reports to the bridge:
The ship is sinking. Give orders....
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Why is SE giving so much attention to the "be nice"-policy?
Recently we have been treated to featured meta posts and blog posts about the importance of the "be nice"-policy, and how/why it should also apply to comments.
This is all fine. Educating each other ...
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An update on my resignation notice
As promised, I'm on my way out. I am unsustainably exhausted after the past few weeks, and... it's time for me to go. I don't see another way. But I have some final thoughts, and I can't leave in ...
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What are the effective communication channels for effecting change to SE?
It seems clear at this point that MSE is not a useful mechanism for pointing out problems on SE sites and getting resolution for them.
It is useful in some ways. If SE staff ask questions about ...
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Statement from SO: June 5, 2023 Moderator Action
Update: GPT on the platform: Data, actions, and outcomes
As you may be aware, a number of moderators (on Stack Overflow/across the network) have decided to stop engaging in several activities that ...
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Let's take a look at the interaction between staff and the "power users" of the network
Recently, it was announced that the "Hot on Meta" questions would no longer show up on the SO sidebar. Sara Chipps elaborated a little bit on why:
Stack Overflow Employees have panic ...
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New Reputation Calculation - was the community asked?
Stack Exchange is recalculating everyone's reputation to award more reputation for receiving an upvote on a question. To my knowledge, the community wasn't asked for input on whether this was a good ...
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Why haven't the statements to the Register been retracted?
Why haven't the statements made by the Stack Exchange director of community:
In response to an email from The Register, Stack Exchange director of
community Sara Chipps said, "On Friday, we ...
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