Linked Questions
20 questions linked to/from Our Commitment to Responding to Meta and Moderators
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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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The company’s commitment to rebuilding the relationship with you, our community
My name is Teresa Dietrich. About a month ago, I joined Stack Overflow as Head of Product and Community, reporting directly to the CEO. During my years as an engineer and technology leader, I saw the ...
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We need "assume good intent" back in the Code of Conduct
At some point, "assume good intent" was removed from the Code of Conduct.
It's a key pillar of the social contract and how we choose to deal with each other. It belongs in the Code of ...
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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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CEO Blog: Some exciting news about fundraising
I’m really excited to share with you the fact that Stack Overflow just raised $85 million in our series E round of funding. I've written about the investment in detail on our blog.
As I said there, ...
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What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?
For context on how this process came to be, please see our initial commitment to responding to Meta and Mods, our guidelines for the testing period, and the results of the initial test and next steps.
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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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Can we have a way to edit bounty custom message?
I put up this bounty over on SO with the assumption that the text would be formatted like it is for a question or answer.
I'm not really sure if I was incorrect in my assumption, or if I just ...
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Meta escalation/response process update (March-April 2020 test results, next steps)
In the beginning of March, I shared a process by which posts that need staff attention could get escalated, and a plan to test it out between March 16 and April 30, 2020. As promised on that post’s ...
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Community and Moderator guidelines for escalating issues via new response process (March-April 2020)
Last week I posted the company’s commitment to responding to Meta and the Moderators here. If you haven’t read it yet, doing so before reading this one is recommended, since it gives a higher-level ...
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Stop misusing the blog sidebar and restrict it to posts which are actually announcements of network-wide significance
Catija has recently explained that which blog posts get displayed in the side bar for each site depends on a blog tag:
It's tag-dependent.
Blog posts tagged "bulletin" appear in the ...
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Diamonds (♦) remain. Is Stack Exchange still holding out hope?
We've seen many resignations by moderators recently, now even on some of the sites I'm more active on. It's been hard for me to keep up. But curiously, though these users say they are resigning and ...
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How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta?
I posted a question here on Meta Stack Exchange, or on a per-site meta, regarding a bug I found in the system. I got no comments, or a few comments stating that this is a legitimate bug (and not by ...
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Are moderators required to write real answers to posts questioning their actions?
I understand moderators have a tough job but sometimes a normal user doesn't understand why their flag was declined or why their post was closed or deleted without sufficient explanation by a ...
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Can employees please provide some indication that a lower-priority request is being looked into or has been internally reported?
This is not a duplicate of Can we have a guaranteed pipeline for responses from Stack Exchange?. That specifically refers to high-profile requests that receive a lot of votes, and the answer there ...