Timeline for We need to stop hoping for change in, or help from, SO Inc
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| Jan 23, 2020 at 15:58 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| Jan 20, 2020 at 8:12 | comment | added | Magisch | If you view everything they've done in the past year from the lens of the managers asking themselves "Does this increase our income and profit" and if not, they're not interested, then it makes a scary amount of sense. Even the blunders around social issues seem to be guided entirely by the potential for bad PR and therefore revenue drops associated with them. Money, it seems, now reigns supreme. | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 8:10 | comment | added | Magisch | @PeterMortensen I mean, what happened now is that the VC investors want their returns, so they're transitioning SE from a startup based on a mission to a coporation based on a different mission (shareholder value, and exclusively shareholder value). To that end, they've been bringing in silicon valley type executives who know nothing of what SO started as, and the entire structure is being corporatized. It's visible everywhere. | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 7:27 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | Social contract (unwritten) = what both the SE and community would and wouldn't do. | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 7:22 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | I don't think it was ever a democracy, but there was an implied social contract. When Joel described in detail (e.g. in the first podcast series, 86 episodes, 2008 to 2010-03-17) the various evil ways the hyphen site behaved, it was implied that Stack Exchange would never ever do anything that even came close to resembling it. It was supposed to be the very DNA of the company, the story that every new employee would be told over and over until they got sick of it. The very raison d'être. Apparently some didn't get the memo. | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 7:11 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 11:30 | comment | added | terdon | Everything you say is true. I am suggesting we ignore any policies we don't agree with. Force them to kick us off, if that's what they want. I know I will not follow the policy to unfeature resignation posts, for example. If I choose to continue it will be by my own rules and, when those clash with what SE wants, they can do their own dirty work and kick me off the network. | |
| Jan 19, 2020 at 11:12 | history | answered | Abandon all hope | CC BY-SA 4.0 |