Timeline for Is “Stacker” a common term for Stack Overflow members?
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| Oct 27, 2019 at 12:06 | comment | added | Catija Staff | @MichaelFreidgeim The comparison wasn’t intended to be about extra respect. It was specifically to indicate an extremely well-known member who many assume to have been here since the beginning. Sara is talking about being a long-term member and I’m trying to put that in context. | |
| Oct 27, 2019 at 4:12 | vote | accept | Michael Freidgeim | ||
| Oct 27, 2019 at 4:12 | comment | added | Michael Freidgeim | Comparison to Jon Skeet by the user number doesn’t add extra respect to Sara. He earned more reps in a shorter time :) | |
| Oct 27, 2019 at 1:01 | comment | added | Michael Freidgeim | @SonictheReinstateMonica-hog, I don’t think that comparison with Google is correct. For Google the main asset is software, created by “Googlers”.For Stack Overflow the main asset is Q&A database created (and continue to populate) by the community. I hope SO management doesn’t have plans to replace community with “Stackers” to answer the questions. Anyway they can enjoy to name themselves as they want. Pity that they consider themselves so far from the community. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 22:20 | comment | added | Alex | There is no need to respond @Catija. It was a playful comment to highlight that giving each other the benefit of the doubt is a two way thing. Once this is lost, it becomes much harder to keep a community alive. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 21:05 | history | edited | CatijaStaff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 26, 2019 at 21:01 | comment | added | Catija Staff | @Jaco Sara is rightfully able to call herself a “long-time [member of SO]” ... she has a four-digit user number. I’m unaware of why she used the term in that specific situation. Perhaps there are subgroups of SO who use the term... maybe she got confused because it is used internally... a slip up. I can understand your interpretation... I don’t really have a way to respond to it. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 20:53 | comment | added | Alex | @Catija It may have gone largely unnoticed to you (:-)), but there have been a few trust issues between the community and StackExchange staff. If Stacker is a term used by StackExchange staff, the term "long time Slacker" is a misrepresentation. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 20:53 | comment | added | Michael Freidgeim | @Catija, my last comment wasn’t a reply to your clarification, I wrote it at the same time as you published your comment. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | Catija Staff | @MichaelFreidgeim Yes? | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 20:34 | comment | added | Michael Freidgeim | Sara didn’t use the term for “work for Stack Overflow.“. She started to work for Stack Overflow relatively recent, and by using “long time Stacker“ , she used the term incorrectly. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 20:31 | comment | added | Catija Staff | @MichaelFreidgeim As far as I'm aware, the term existed prior to Sara's being hired. She seems to be using it to mean users but, as I say in the answer, I'm unaware of any official usage to refer to members of the site. I'm not sure why she used it that way. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 20:16 | comment | added | Michael Freidgeim | @Catija, could you please clarify the timeline to answer my question, was the term introduced by Sara? Was the term informally used before she become the director, or start to used it only recently and now the new CEO likes it and made it more official? | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 19:31 | comment | added | Catija Staff | I think we’re confusing each other, @JJJ - it is used for the entire company. I received such an email yesterday. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 19:23 | comment | added | Catija Staff | @JJJ I'm not quite sure why it can't be both? We definitely use it internally to refer to everyone who works here... I'm not comfortable showing an example of it in public. Most of our staff aren't devs, so (if it were only used with full stack devs) it'd be inappropriate to open an all-company email with "Hello Stackers,"... but we use it generally for everyone, so it's unrelated to the type of developer. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 18:29 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Just like how "Googler" isn't used by people who frequently Google things, but for those who work for Google. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 17:42 | history | answered | CatijaStaff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |