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35 questions linked to/from Thank you, Shog9
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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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The Many Memes of Meta
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral&...
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The company’s commitment to rebuilding the relationship with you, our community
My name is Teresa Dietrich. About a month ago, I joined Stack Overflow as Head of Product and Community, reporting directly to the CEO. During my years as an engineer and technology leader, I saw the ...
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Firing Community Managers: Stack Exchange is not interested in cooperating with the community, is it?
Less than a month ago, there was some settling of the incident with firing Monica. It's obvious that there was not a lot of approval from the community on the course of action chosen by SE, or the ...
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Checking in with "*Monica*" users
On 2019-12-23 Monica Cellio updated her GoFundMe to announce a legal settlement with SE Inc.
(Latest) Since that day, I've been wondering if (or what) that means for that unorganized ad-hoc "...
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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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How long can Moderator Resignation notices be featured?
How long are moderator resignation posts allowed to be featured in the sidebars of our sites?
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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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A big thank you, Tim Post
As you may have seen, this was Tim Post’s last week at Stack Overflow. To say that he has been a staple of this company for a very long time is an understatement. Tim has served as a community manager,...
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Why is SE gutting the CM team?
It looks like SE has fired two of the most experienced CMs just now. What does this mean for the community, and for the plans SE has for the future of the network?
In a blog post about new feedback ...
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Time for a major shift in strategy and approach
This post is addressed to the people who still believe they have a future at Stack Exchange, and who still hold out some hope that there can be a way out of this mess. If you have no such hope left, I ...
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Nominations: New Stack Overflow Moderator [closed]
blog.stackoverflow: Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Begins
Based on the traffic volume, it's crazy that we have so few Stack Overflow community moderators relative to the site's size and ...
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Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?
I think we can all agree, this sucks:
If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer&...
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Is this an appropriate place to call for the resignation of an SO employee?
In a completely hypothetical situation wherein a known employee of Stack Overflow takes public actions that are objectively detrimental to both the company and community, and for which actions shows ...
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What's the best of Stack?
Continuing with my series of questions to you - I've got one that's a bit lighter this week. We spent last week firing up our magic wand and changing things. This time, let's celebrate what exists.
I ...
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