Timeline for What would you like to change about the moderator election process?
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| Mar 9 at 14:11 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | @GreenGiant SE's had a history of cutting the CM team to the bone, often people with deep ties to the community. If I have any grievances, its often the lack of resources and follow through - none of which are the fault of the CMs or line staff. The moderation system in a sense is one of the few things that provides long term continuity. Yanno what would make the CM's life better? Sufficient resources and job security, which would make things less stressful. I'd also point out some of the replies are from former community managers. | |
| Mar 7 at 18:19 | comment | added | Tadeusz Kopec for Ukraine | SO is a company, that relies on volunteers work and community effort, but has shown multiple times, that values profit over community needs. No wonder that complaints on too big workload on paid employees with question, how would volunteers could help lower it, is not well received. The obvious solution is to make use of company profits and hire more CMs instead of laying them off. | |
| Feb 23 at 16:07 | comment | added | Kevin B | Who is punishing CM's? I don't see anyone here blaming spencer, or any other CM or CM's as a group for any of this. | |
| Feb 22 at 16:39 | comment | added | GreenGiant | All of that context (about the moderator strike, etc.) is true. But does it really make sense to punish CMs (by resisting their efforts to improve things here) because we don't like how the company leadership handled things? Demanding or expecting equity in treatment is never going to move the needle toward a better relationship. Only generosity, forgiveness and compassion can. | |
| Feb 16 at 16:50 | comment | added | Shog9 | I expect most everyone is sympathetic if not outright in favor of efforts to automate away drudgery - for CMs or anyone else. For elections specifically, that sort of effort is long overdue. The elephant in the room here is... This effort is coming shortly after a major moderator strike triggered by company communications that aimed to pit moderators against the folks who elected them. No amount of automation on the one side or consideration on the other is gonna compensate for the damage wrought to the process by crap like that; folks are looking for more substantive efforts. | |
| Feb 15 at 17:23 | comment | added | Kevin B | At a certain point, when the company has made it clear that there's only a small amount of dev time they're willing to spend on the Q&A product and it gets spent almost exclusively on cosmetic changes and changes they cook up for marketing (OverflowAI/Collectives/Discussions)... the capacity for trusting things are being done for the good of the community is significantly reduced. | |
| Feb 15 at 16:47 | history | answered | GreenGiant | CC BY-SA 4.0 |