Timeline for The CEO says we "have now changed" our reputation for over-zealous moderation. What actually changed?
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| 18 hours ago | comment | added | killshot13 | Rebuilding something after burning it to the ground is not noble; it's insurance fraud. Stack Overflow, a.k.a. Prosus, destroyed Stack Overflow. Not the mods. | |
| Feb 25 at 12:42 | comment | added | peterh | @StoryTeller-UnslanderMonica Also the so-named "help vampires" could have became useful contributors; a correct learning curve should have given to them, but they were expelled. By destroying content, by handling newbies on hostile ways, we lose the contributor, and by losing the contributor, we also lose his future contributions. There were many tries from the side of the company to fix the situation, but all their tries remain superficial. Finally the system collapsed. SO, as we knew it, is over. What the company is trying, to grow some new on the ruins. | |
| Feb 25 at 12:38 | comment | added | peterh | @StoryTeller-UnslanderMonica Checking the close review, about a third of the closures are blatantly false or maybe even deliberately destructive; a third of them is only bad (or not the best to do). Maybe a third of them is fair. However, the reviewers vote in about 90-95% for closure, very often - visible from the vote casting timestamps - obviously without even examining the question. I am sorry but we can not talk about a decision process here, it is a race to cast the most close votes without failing an audit... I agree with ts existence, I disagree what is going there, it harms more. | |
| Feb 24 at 18:56 | comment | added | StoryTeller - Unslander Monica | Seems the CEO simply let slip curation is going away before the official announcement. "Overzealous moderation" is how the help vampires called it. | |
| Feb 14 at 2:17 | comment | added | Ramhound | They did add the useless seeking advice questions that cannot be moderated or downvoted or even answered, so there is that, I suppose that has changed | |
| Feb 12 at 13:29 | comment | converted from answer | peterh | Nothing. Even old users have a hard time to get what they want. Now that the newbies are evaporating, but the "good old boys" mostly remained, I foresee actually a further worsening of the situation. But, even if there would be a significant change, how could it repair 10 years of hostility in the eyes of the world? | |
| Feb 12 at 12:59 | answer | added | Lundin | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 11 at 14:08 | answer | added | user400654 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 11 at 8:25 | answer | added | nvoigt | timeline score: 38 | |
| Feb 11 at 7:31 | answer | added | Rebecca J. Stones | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 11 at 3:58 | answer | added | jen | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 11 at 2:11 | history | edited | Franck Dernoncourt |
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| Feb 10 at 22:53 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | This is a PR fluff piece, nothing in there has any connection to reality | |
| Feb 10 at 22:26 | comment | added | Robotnik | Plus the removal of rep requirements for chat, etc. Removing "barriers" to participation | |
| Feb 10 at 22:19 | comment | added | Robotnik | I mean, theres been that whole push to allow speculative/off topic questions to be asked in a secondary space. I assume it has something to do with that | |
| Feb 10 at 21:49 | comment | added | FeliniusRex | You are claiming that those core things are responsible for SO's reputation, and I am pointing out that it's impossible to run a SE at scale without them. Thus, I wouldn't expect those three things to be changed. If you're unhappy there wasn't a complete skeletal replacement, I'm not sure what to tell you. It's even more unreasonable to expect a 117 rep guy to have an answer. | |
| Feb 10 at 21:24 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @FeliniusRex Sure. But what changed? | |
| Feb 10 at 21:19 | comment | added | FeliniusRex | I don't see how you can run any SE without closing useless questions or requiring MREs. An SE doesn't exist for people to just post vague questions and then spend forever figuring out what the poster actually wanted. | |
| Feb 10 at 20:50 | history | asked | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |