Timeline for Firing Community Managers: Stack Exchange is not interested in cooperating with the community, is it?
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| Jan 31, 2020 at 16:46 | comment | added | trlkly | @terdon GoodbyeSE did in fact leave, as they have posted no Questions or Answers since this post. So the only relevant question is why tell people when you are leaving. The answer is this: Boycotting something without saying why is useless. You must state your goal to actually possibly accomplish something. And a lone person boycotting accomplishes nothing, so you have to talk about it to recruit others. | |
| Jan 16, 2020 at 13:40 | comment | added | smci | @terdon: if several hundred or thousand expert users (i.e. the people that post useful answers, aka the site's intrinsic value) left, they could easily disguise it under a mountain of metrics (DAU/MAU counts still going up, raw answercounts going up, meanwhile quality goes irreversibly down). Clearly SO is under huge pressure to meet some short-term metrics on profitability and related milestones, and things will be sacrificed to that. | |
| Jan 16, 2020 at 9:15 | comment | added | terdon | @TecBrat I understand too! I'm still here, aren't I? I just don't see any point in people (and it happens a lot) talking about leaving. We should either leave, or not. But mentioning it and not doing it is just pointless. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 19:54 | comment | added | TecBrat | @terdon I understand GoodBye StackExchange's reason for sticking around and talking about leaving. I'd guess it's similar to mine. We appreciate the community here and would like to encourage others with a similar mindset to also seek out alternative Q&A sites. I'm excited about a project I just found out about. It's in its infancy, but CoDidact just might be that thing! | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 15:06 | comment | added | jmarkmurphy | Yet, you are still here! | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 12:01 | comment | added | JFoxx64 | Of note, they had a blog post selling teams come out the same day they started "aligning the company" for growth by removing pillars of the community. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 10:55 | comment | added | terdon | Perhaps, although I doubt they care. The communities don't make money, SO has reached its goal and isn't interested in building a library any more, the non-SO sites were never relevant financially and the only thing they actually sell is Careers, Enterprise and Teams. Maybe if everyone left they would mind, but if a few hundred of us active users leave I honestly doubt they'd care. But either way, if we're going to leave then we should leave, not hang around here to talk about leaving ;) | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 10:40 | comment | added | Blue | For the last few weeks, I've pretty much only browsed Meta looking for any update for the Monica situation. I think the only thing at this point that will make Stack Exchange realize what they're doing is wrong: Is a mass exodus of their community. Then and only then will investors realize that the new CEO is turning this company down an incredibly destructive path, and start rebuilding/regaining trust of the community, or allow these users to find their own path with alternative Q&A website platforms. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 10:33 | comment | added | terdon | I know how you feel, but what's the point of such a post? I mean, either leave or stay, but this in between thing where you're still around yet advocate leaving doesn't make much sense. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 8:01 | history | answered | Blue | CC BY-SA 4.0 |