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Thank you, Shog9

@Shog9, a longtime Community Manager here at Stack Exchange, has just tweeted that he is no longer working at Stack Overflow: @shog9: Well... I suddenly find myself in need of work. If anyone's ...
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Moderation strike: Results of negotiations

We have reached the following conclusions during negotiations between community-selected strike representatives and representatives of Stack Exchange, Inc. This aims to address most of the concerns ...
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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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The company's commitment to the data dumps, the API, and SEDE

Many words have been written around the company's commitment to the ongoing existence of the data dumps, the API, and the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE). Much of that text can be confusing or ...
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Is SE [going to be] selling our content for AI model training? And what exactly does "reinvest back into our communities" mean?

Wired published an article titled Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data. I read through it, and a few sections seemed noteworthy to me "Community platforms that fuel LLMs ...
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Why are people so unhappy about the OpenAI partnership? Am I missing something?

I'm reading the answers at Our Partnership with OpenAI, and a lot of people seem very unhappy about the partnership. I feel violated, cheated upon, betrayed, and exploited. And so on. But... why? ...
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Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta

TL;DR: Please do not hide Meta Stack Exchange posts on the homepage based on the score because this site works differently than the other ~180 sites listed in https://stackexchange.com/sites. I just ...
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All Stack Exchange data dump releases

I know how to download the latest release of the Stack Exchange Creative Commons Data Dump, but I'm interested in downloading a past release and don't see those listed. Where can I find them?
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What deliverables would you like to see out of a working group?

Update June 3rd, 2024 Thank you to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts. We will review your suggestions and share an update once we have decided on what action to take with working ...
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How can a user unhappy with the LLM partnerships protest constructively (and ideally- effectively)?

I'm more asking this on behalf* of the many people I see trying to express protest to the OpenAI partnership in ways that get themselves into trouble: Deleting their own posts- individual or en masse ...
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(Interim) Policy on AI-content detection reports

This post is (finally) to announce that I have formally rescinded the policy on Generative AI (specifically the one regarding GPT content detectors, which was announced on the moderators team and ...
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Let's talk about (community) health

In my team, we spend a lot of time thinking about the nebulously defined concept of "community health". It seems to be one of those things that everyone knows is important, but nobody can ...
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Are Mods on all sites aware of and able to handle the mass defacing/deletion attempts by users unhappy with the OpenAI announcement?

Phrasing it in the form of a question, since I really don't know the answer, but there's a pretty big issue going on right now with users (at least 20 so far that I've seen) defacing and/or deleting ...
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What, exactly, is Stack Overflow's agreement with OpenAI?

It's difficult to know what, exactly, the accord between Stack Overflow and OpenAI is. Per the meta announcement: anything specific promised about how this will work here could change but that's ...
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Which communities are shunning Stack Exchange, and where have they gone?

Recent announcements have not been well-received. This time, though, it's not outrage on meta or coordinated moderator action: it's ad-hoc vandalism and (I allege) community divestment. As such, there'...
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