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    I agree that its best for questions to be submitted on this post so that post score can be taken into account. The key part of the sentence you quoted is "especially during the week of the event". What I was trying to express was that if someone leaves an AMA question on this post say, the night before or the morning of the event, I can't guarantee that we will see it. It takes time to go through posts with lots of answers. In the hours leading up to the event, it will be easier for us to see questions that come in through the form. People can also ask questions during the event. Commented Feb 14, 2025 at 15:47
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    I'm sorry, but an AMA is not supposed to be a struggle session. If the most popular question was "what color underwear are you wearing?" do you want them to pick that over a question that made them think of something meaningful to communicate even though the meta community didn't like the way the question was phrased? These questions are opportunities to communicate, not test questions that have to be answered exactly the way the querant would prefer. Commented Feb 14, 2025 at 16:00
  • @ColleenV I agree that this should be an opportunity to communicate, which is why score matters. If "how have/haven't you been considering community input in feature rollouts" is +30 and "AI seems really cool; how are you going to bring its awesomeness to SE in 2025" is -5, I am very certain that the company would have things that they think are "meaningful to communicate" regarding the second question even though the community at large doesn't really want that to be answered. Commented Feb 14, 2025 at 16:18
  • "What color underwear are you wearing" is obviously silly; that falls under the "no other option" to me. But more importantly, that wouldn't rise to the top anyways because the MSE community knows they do and don't find important. The community is much better at judging what communication is and isn't important than the company will be; there needs to be some trust in MSE to self-regulate. Commented Feb 14, 2025 at 16:21
  • I think what I'm really getting at is given Prashanth's and the rest of leadership's track record with communication, I am not particularly optimistic that this will be carried out in good faith. This post was an attempt to discuss what good faith does and does not look like in the context of a Stack Exchange AMA. Commented Feb 14, 2025 at 16:25
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    "what is seen by management as the single biggest danger to continued success of the platform?" is an interesting question that could have an insightful answer but isn't getting upvoted. We all know the issues around post score and have argued about it a lot right here. The questions they choose to answer will say a lot, but it's unreasonable to demand that they forgo answering questions with negative scores even if they have something interesting to say about that topic. The score is information but it's not a replacement for looking at the content. Commented Feb 14, 2025 at 16:40
  • @ColleenV Sure, not a demand. I edited the answer to reflect that. But it really does matter. I want this AMA to be engagement, not a publicity stunt. Commented Feb 14, 2025 at 16:58
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    I think most people are hoping that it will be substantive, but we've been burned before. Commented Feb 14, 2025 at 17:00
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    @ColleenV - I'm pretty sure this is just going to be a bunch of corporate double-speak and an announcement about them dumping AI crap onto every answer Commented Feb 15, 2025 at 19:36
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    @ColleenV Answering questions with negative ratings is the same idea as implementing features with overwhelmingly negative votes -- with the same motivation: because it benefits them the most. Commented Feb 24, 2025 at 16:10