Aaron, we are truly thankful that you dedicated such extensive amounts of time to advocate on behalf of the community. But, as many people have already said, SE is not going to follow through with their promises. Allow me to reflect::

CEO will commit to continue posting on meta at least quarterly.

We don't care what the CEO has to say. SE is ignoring the community and trying to keep us quiet by throwing us a bone "quarterly." If the CEO really cares for the community, he can forget posting on meta, and instead READ on meta. If the SE administration actually takes the time to give a damn and read what we have to say (on meta), then we might actually get somewhere.

Meta is for the community members who care. It is where we go to build the community. But SE is disregarding everyone on meta, and focusing solely on users who will likely never even use meta.

• We have defined top 5 strategic priorities for the year.
• How do we welcome more and more people.

Like Dalija Prasnikar already said, we don't need new users. What we do need is to retain those users - like Aaron - who actually dedicate time to the embetterment of the community. I understand the desire to make users with single reputation points feel welcomed, but it is in the end completely pointless if there are no users with thousands of reputation points to answer their questions. At the rate things are going, this will soon be the case. SE is driving away all those members who matter through their indifference, which is thinly veiled in empty promises.

It is quite evident that - at this point - SE only cares about those new users who create accounts simply to ask a single duplicate question and never return. They have no consideration for what the long-standing members, who have dedicated years of their lives to endlessly contributing to the community, have to say, want, and need.

If SE wants us to buy their crap, then they can start by reading what we have to say on meta, and interacting with us through the comments and answers. Again, we do not want them to interact with us collectively by posting periodic literature directed at us as a general audience - it is essentially a newsletter, thrown out for whoever for might read it, and with no consideration for the readers' feedback. We are done reading SE's literature. It is their turn to start reading ours.

Aaron, we are truly thankful that you dedicated such extensive amounts of time to advocate on behalf of the community. But, as many people have already said, SE is not going to follow through with their promises. Allow me to reflect::

CEO will commit to continue posting on meta at least quarterly.

We don't care what the CEO has to say. SE is ignoring the community and trying to keep us quiet by throwing us a bone "quarterly." If the CEO really cares for the community, he can forget posting on meta, and instead READ on meta. If the SE administration actually takes the time to give a damn and read what we have to say (on meta), then we might actually get somewhere.

Meta is for the community members who care. It is where we go to build the community. But SE is disregarding everyone on meta, and focusing solely on users who will likely never even use meta.

• We have defined top 5 strategic priorities for the year.
• How do we welcome more and more people.

Like Dalija Prasnikar already said, we don't need new users. What we do need is to retain those users - like Aaron - who actually dedicate time to the embetterment of the community. I understand the desire to make users with single reputation points feel welcomed, but it is in the end completely pointless if there are no users with thousands of reputation points to answer their questions. At the rate things are going, this will soon be the case. SE is driving away all those members who matter through their indifference, which is thinly veiled in empty promises.

It is quite evident that, at this point, SE only cares about those new users who create accounts simply to ask a single duplicate question and never return. They have no consideration for what the long-standing members, who have dedicated years of their lives to endlessly contributing to the community, have to say, want, and need.

If SE wants us to buy their crap, then they can start by reading what we have to say on meta, and interacting with us through the comments and answers. Again, we do not want them to interact with us collectively by posting periodic literature directed at us as a general audience - it is essentially a newsletter, thrown out for whoever for might read it, and with no consideration for the readers' feedback. We are done reading SE's literature. It is their turn to start reading ours.

Aaron, we are truly thankful that you dedicated such extensive amounts of time to advocate on behalf of the community. But, as many people have already said, SE is not going to follow through with their promises. Allow me to reflect::

CEO will commit to continue posting on meta at least quarterly.

We don't care what the CEO has to say. SE is ignoring the community and trying to keep us quiet by throwing us a bone "quarterly." If the CEO really cares for the community, he can forget posting on meta, and instead READ on meta. If the SE administration actually takes the time to give a damn and read what we have to say (on meta), then we might actually get somewhere.

Meta is for the community members who care. It is where we go to build the community. But SE is disregarding everyone on meta, and focusing solely on users who will likely never even use meta.

• We have defined top 5 strategic priorities for the year.
• How do we welcome more and more people.

Like Dalija Prasnikar already said, we don't need new users. What we do need is to retain those users - like Aaron - who actually dedicate time to the embetterment of the community. I understand the desire to make users with single reputation points feel welcomed, but it is in the end completely pointless if there are no users with thousands of reputation points to answer their questions. At the rate things are going, this will soon be the case. SE is driving away all those members who matter through their indifference, which is thinly veiled in empty promises.

It is quite evident that - at this point - SE only cares about those new users who create accounts simply to ask a single duplicate question and never return. They have no consideration for what the long-standing members, who have dedicated years of their lives to endlessly contributing to the community, have to say, want, and need.

If SE wants us to buy their crap, then they can start by reading what we have to say on meta, and interacting with us through the comments. Again, we do not want them to interact with us collectively by posting periodic literature directed at us as a general audience - it is essentially a newsletter, thrown out for whoever for might read it, and with no consideration for the readers' feedback. We are done reading SE's literature. It is their turn to start reading ours.

Aaron, we are truly thankful that you dedicated such extensive amounts of time to advocate on behalf of the community. But, as many people have already said, SE is not going to follow through with their promises. Allow me to reflect::

CEO will commit to continue posting on meta at least quarterly.

We don't care what the CEO has to say. SE is ignoring the community and trying to keep us quiet by throwing us a bone "quarterly." If the CEO really cares for the community, he can forget posting on meta, and instead READ on meta. If the SE administration actually takes the time to give a damn and read what we have to say (on meta), then we might actually get somewhere.

Meta is for the community members who care. It is where we go to build the community. But SE is disregarding everyone on meta, and focusing solely on users who will likely never even use meta.

• We have defined top 5 strategic priorities for the year.
• How do we welcome more and more people.

Like Dalija Prasnikar already said, we don't need new users. What we do need is to retain those users - like Aaron - who actually dedicate time to the embetterment of the community. I understand the desire to make users with single reputation points feel welcomed, but it is in the end completely pointless if there are no users with thousands of reputation points to answer their questions. At the rate things are going, this will soon be the case. SE is driving away all those members who matter through their indifference, which is thinly veiled in empty promises.

It is quite evident that - at this point - SE only cares about those new users who create accounts simply to ask a single duplicate question and never return. They have no consideration for what the long-standing members, who have dedicated years of their lives to endlessly contributing to the community, have to say, want, and need.

If SE wants us to buy their crap, then they can start by reading what we have to say on meta, and interacting with us through the comments and answers. Again, we do not want them to interact with us collectively by posting periodic literature directed at us as a general audience - it is essentially a newsletter, thrown out for whoever for might read it, and with no consideration for the readers' feedback. We are done reading SE's literature. It is their turn to start reading ours.