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46 questions linked to/from Why is SE removing links and community ads about a legal fund campaign?
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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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Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm; it's time to fix it!
Over the last month, Stack Overflow has violated its own policies
and precedents to cause egregious and unnecessary harm to me -- to my
reputation (personal and professional), to my health, and to my ...
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Net Neutrality and Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange
It's July 12th! (2017) (in Coordinated Universal Stack Exchange Time)
Today we're gonna be showing a banner directing readers to the blog post (and thus, indirectly, this discussion) from every Stack ...
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Monica's situation continues unresolved. Is SE hoping the problem just goes away?
This surfaced in the apology thread, but I believe it deserves more exposure.
The apology thread was posted October 6th, 2019. In it, the idea was expressed that SE, the company, had done wrong by ...
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New Post Notices rollout on Stack Overflow
New Post Notices have been launched network-wide. Please post all new feedback, bugs and feature requests to the new announcement post.
As has been previously announced, we have been working for some ...
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Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers
Today we changed the way we sort answers on Stack Overflow. We no longer pin the accepted answer (with the green checkmark) to the top of the list of answers. By default, we now sort strictly by votes ...
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Dear Stack Exchange: a statement and a letter from your moderators
Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.,
We know you know about this already, so we'll keep this brief. The past two weeks have been rough. Lots of moderators have lost confidence in you; for some, it was the final ...
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How can we put pressure on Stack Exchange Inc. without damaging the community?
Is there a constructive way to put pressure on Stack Exchange (the company) without putting any pressure on the community in general and the moderators in particular?
Goals
Give Monica her diamond(s)...
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How can we help Monica Cellio?
Monica's demotion as a moderator was in the words of Stack Exchange's CTO a procedural error . The consensus among witnesses and users is that the faulty process resulted in an erroneous outcome. ...
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New post lock available on meta sites: Policy Lock
We have just released a new type of post lock on meta sites called the Policy Lock. This lock can only be used by our Community Team, and when applied to a question or answer it will prevent any edits ...
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Checking in with moderators that suspended their activity
As of December 24th, 2019, there seem to be maybe 24 moderators who suspended activity and are still in that state as a result of the ongoing fiasco centered around SE's firing of Monica Cellio. ...
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Under what circumstances will Stack Exchange, Inc. share private/sensitive information with the press?
What are Stack Exchange, Inc.'s policies regarding whether and when private or sensitive information will be shared by the company with the public, and particularly with the press?
By "private ...
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How can we move forward if SE will not admit to wrongdoing for legal reasons?
As I understand, one of the major grievances of the community recently over the situation with Monica is that the Stack Exchange team has not apologized for or admitted to any wrongdoing over making ...
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What are the next steps we as a community should take?
It has been near three months now since the tipping point of the community.
Many of us are still very not happy with SE.
The situation with Monica is at an impasse SE has told us:
"We aren't ...
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Is it acceptable to insult god in a user profile?
Like always I hang around in Stack Overflow's chatrooms. Today, someone posted a link to his new "reloaded" user profile.
Along the lines I read in Arabic "god is a pig". So I asked him to remove it:
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