Linked Questions
52 questions linked to/from The company’s commitment to rebuilding the relationship with you, our community
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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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Thank you, Shog9
@Shog9, a longtime Community Manager here at Stack Exchange, has just tweeted that he is no longer working at Stack Overflow:
@shog9: Well... I suddenly find myself in need of work.
If anyone's ...
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The MIT License – Clarity on Using Code on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
Update (Dec. 22, 2015): Thanks, everyone, for your feedback to this proposal. We're going to digest this one over the holidays and should have a follow-up announcement answering your questions and ...
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Firing Community Managers: Stack Exchange is not interested in cooperating with the community, is it?
Less than a month ago, there was some settling of the incident with firing Monica. It's obvious that there was not a lot of approval from the community on the course of action chosen by SE, or the ...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
Update
On August 2nd, 2023, negotiations between community representatives and representatives of the company concluded with an agreement being reached. The details of the agreement can be found at ...
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Thank you, Robert Cartaino
The title says it all.
Thank you, Robert Cartaino, for everything you did for SE and the community.
I don't post much on MSE, but have been a mod for about eight years. There is a lot that can go on ...
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Change in roles for Jon Ericson (leaving SE)
It’s a bit surreal to be writing this post—not many people can say they left their dream job twice. Today is my last day as an employee of Stack Overflow. I’ll be joining College Confidential as their ...
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An Update On Creative Commons Licensing
We’d like to provide you with an update to our transition to version 4.0 of the CC BY-SA license. We realize that this is something that you care deeply about, and that our response to your concerns ...
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Handling Calls to Remove a Moderator [duplicate]
This discussion informed our process for seven years, but eventually required updates and augmentation.
For discussion regarding the successors to this process, please see: Feedback post: Moderator ...
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Moderation Strike update: Data dumps, choosing representatives, GPT data, and where we’re holding
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On August 2nd, 2023, negotiations between community representatives and representatives of the company concluded with an agreement being reached. The details of the agreement can be found at ...
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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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The Q1 2020 Community Roadmap is on the Blog
I just posted to our blog about our First Quarter Community Roadmap for 2020. Here's a preview of what the roadmap looks for this quarter:
Please see the post for details on the different themes of ...
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Summing up the main issues (The Story So Far)
Could we have a neutral summing up of the issues (without any editorializing)? I will attempt to do so in an answer, big picture style. Or you could think of this as "The Story So Far" for ...
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Introducing the Moderator Council - and its first, pro-tempore, representatives
When I was a moderator, I often referred to moderation on Stack Exchange as being a janitor: cleaning up spam, deleting non-answers, removing rudeness, and eradicating a seemingly-endless stream of ...
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Under what circumstances will Stack Exchange, Inc. share private/sensitive information with the press?
What are Stack Exchange, Inc.'s policies regarding whether and when private or sensitive information will be shared by the company with the public, and particularly with the press?
By "private ...
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What is Stack Overflow's business model?
I once answered a question that asked how Stack Overflow makes money, but that was before the time of VC.
Now, Stack Overflow has cash, and they have an ever-growing list of employees, but where's the ...
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Dear SE, please stop disparaging the moderators in the press
The VP of Community for SE gave the following statement to the press:
Stack Overflow ran an analysis and the ChatGPT detection tools that moderators were previously using have an alarmingly high rate ...
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Our Commitment to Responding to Meta and Moderators
As Teresa mentioned in our Q1 roadmap blog post, the company is working on establishing our commitment to responding on our Meta sites and to our moderators, by setting up a new Meta engagement policy....
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Farewell Yaakov and thanks for the haiku!
You may soon notice one fewer diamond around the site. The amazing developer, tech lead, and community advocate Yaakov Ellis - user 51(!) - has taken an opportunity elsewhere and today, December 7th, ...
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What data about meta has eluded Stack Exchange until recently?
In the recent blog post there is the following paragraph (emphasis mine):
Opinions and feelings about the best way forward are extremely valid things to consider, but the devil is in the details ...
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What's the reasoning behind the vote button tooltips having changed?
I recently noticed that the vote button tooltips have changed. They now say:
Downvote this <post-type> if you find it unclear or not useful
Upvote this <post-type> if you find it clear ...
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What are some deferred, ignored, or sunset projects we wish SE would work on to facilitate the community?
We all have our pet projects - things we wish SE would do but which seem to be forever stuck in the backlog pile. Other times, something that's well received gets forgotten in the shuffle.
Inspired by ...
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Is everything OK at Stack Exchange now?
Background
As a 31-year-old male that is emotionally stable (I think...), I just spent the last two hours with tears running down my face as I read 10+ Stack Exchange (SE) posts, blog posts, GoFundMes,...
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Will concerns regarding the move to CC BY-SA 4.0 elicit any further dialogue from Stack Exchange, Inc.?
Fifteen days ago, it was suddenly announced that the user-contributed content on Stack Exchange had been relicensed as CC BY SA 4.0.
The change took immediate and retroactive effect and is still in ...
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Is "You need us, we don't need you" a difficult concept for S.E. leadership to understand?
Regarding the reversal of the AI generated content ban, once again I'm astonished at the self-serving decisions and actions taken by those who profit materially from this network. Alienating trusted ...
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Allow Monica to have a structured conversation (à la mediation) with SE leadership
I read a recent comment by Monica Cellio that said
perhaps an actual conversation between a person in authority and Monica would be a good first step. SE isn't taking my calls; I can't initiate that. ...
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Stack Overflow 2020 Q1&2 Company Commitments Report Card
Five months ago, Teresa Dietrich posted an introduction and a mission statement of sorts, laying out some admissions of past failures, and intentions for the new year. This was followed by two ...
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Please apologise properly to Monica
Teresa Dietrich asked moderators who have resigned or suspended activity to post on Meta if issues remained unaddressed.
I haven't resigned or suspended activity but I am a moderator and as indicated ...
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Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE
With the recent change in the moderator privilege distribution among staff members, not everyone gets an immediately visible diamond symbol next to their name.
Hovering over a user card is not the ...
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Make public Q&A a nonprofit
It is not news that the relationship between the community of invested Stack Overflow users and the company is at an all-time low. The core reason is arguably an unresolvable tension between their ...
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