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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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Employee profiles are now marked with a “Staff” indicator
As of 31 July 2019, all staff member accounts have "Staff" next to their name on their user profile.
It looks like this:
(This is an updated image from the original one included in this ...
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SE Inc. Director of Public Q&A retweets bad-faith, misrepresentative tweet
As we all know, SE Inc. has engaged in highly problematic and widely criticized actions against the SE community and specific moderators.
Earlier today (Oct 11th, 2019), Ms. Sara Chipps, "...
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The Community Teams @ Stack Exchange and how we work together
I wanted to share with you about who the people that work on our Community are, and how we are organized. For context, I (Teresa Dietrich) am the head of Product, Community, Design and Engineering, a ...
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Let's take a look at the interaction between staff and the "power users" of the network
Recently, it was announced that the "Hot on Meta" questions would no longer show up on the SO sidebar. Sara Chipps elaborated a little bit on why:
Stack Overflow Employees have panic ...
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Thank you, Robert Cartaino
The title says it all.
Thank you, Robert Cartaino, for everything you did for SE and the community.
I don't post much on MSE, but have been a mod for about eight years. There is a lot that can go on ...
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Change in roles for Jon Ericson (leaving SE)
It’s a bit surreal to be writing this post—not many people can say they left their dream job twice. Today is my last day as an employee of Stack Overflow. I’ll be joining College Confidential as their ...
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May 2023 layoff impacting 58 SO/SE staff
A few minutes ago, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar posted a note to our blog to share the news that Stack Overflow has made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by 58 people, or about 10% of our ...
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Practical effects of the October 2023 layoff
I hope that by now you’ve all had a chance to read and digest the announcement and the blog post about today’s layoff.
This was not an easy decision to make, nor is this an easy conversation to have. ...
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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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Did the Stack Exchange staff members assist in the apprehension of Ross Ulbricht?
The recent arrest of someone behind Silk Road is in the news today, he was arrested in a San Francisco public library. A couple of background articles here and here.
To what extent, if any, did ...
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Indicator on Meta next to the display name of former Staff and/or Mod users for actions performed with that status
When a staff member or a mod posts or performs an action on a site (like commenting, reviews, revisions) their status as Staff and/or Mod status is clearly identified using symbols or text set next to ...
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Can admins see who downvoted them? If not, do developers with DB access look it up?
I have always wondered, do SO/SE employees/admins have an ability to see who downvoted them?
For example, I can see my own downvoted questions on my reputation tab. Does this interface look like it ...
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What privileges and tools do staff members without a diamond have access to?
I noticed that Teresa's recent announcement's first revision was posted with the featured tag.
As we know well, this tag is a moderator-only tag. Regular users cannot apply this tag to a question.
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Thank you Jeff Atwood!
I'm quite a new user, so it feels somewhat inappropriate for me to post this (I kinda thought it would have appeared already ^^). But as a member of the Stack Exchange network who just read Jeff's ...
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What happened with the Stack Overflow layoffs (2017-11-02)?
I’m curious as to why Stack Exchange laid off 20% of its staff, and
crucially why there is a discrepancy between the PR statement “we cut sales
and marketing” and the apparent reality of lots of ...
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Can we have a square or triangle or heart or *something* after employees' names?
Given that not all employees have a diamond:
All Stack Overflow employees aren't given a moderator diamond; the Community team has tightened up internal policies regarding who gets one and who ...
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Who are the users that work for Stack Overflow?
I know Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky are the owners or creators because I came by the site from reading their blogs.
Who else works for Stack Overflow in here?
Does Jon Skeet? There's also a fair ...
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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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Keep "Employee" on the profile of SE employees on meta [duplicate]
Currently, SE employees are given diamonds wherever they need them. I agree with Jeff on this to some degree, employees shouldn't be treated any different.
But... on meta, employees are different. ...
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Announcement: Teresa Dietrich leaves Stack
Some of you know Teresa Dietrich, our Chief Product Officer. Teresa’s last day with the company was Friday, April 21st. In the 3+ years that she was here, Teresa had a huge impact on the company and ...
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Why is SE staff violating SE policy by un-featuring posts about the strike on per-site Metas?
There have been several cases where SE staff has removed the featured tag from per-site Meta posts in relation to the strike, despite no (public) statement from SE regarding that.
Unless there is a ...
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
Recently, Sara Chipps posted her message Update: an agreement with Monica Cellio. After reading it, I wanted to compare it with her previous post about this subject. It turns out that she deleted it. ...
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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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Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE
With the recent change in the moderator privilege distribution among staff members, not everyone gets an immediately visible diamond symbol next to their name.
Hovering over a user card is not the ...
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We need a "former staff" account flag [duplicate]
Not too long ago a flag in user accounts was added to help denote SO staff
The catch here is that it doesn't indicate who was previously staff. This problem was originally limited to tertiary ...
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How can one appropriately and constructively criticize or complain about a Stack Exchange employee on Meta Stack Exchange?
Related: Is this an appropriate place to call for the resignation of an SO employee?
In an answer to the question above, Shog9 ♦ mentioned that calling for a staff member's immediate removal can be ...
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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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Hide employee reputation points on per-site Metas
Stack Overflow is growing, and an increasing number of employees do not have a lot of reputation points on the SE main sites.
Many of them are interacting with the community on the respective Meta ...
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How exactly does the moderator inactivity process interact with employment at SE and employee moderator rights?
I had previously asked a question about the procedure for removing moderators who become inactive from moderating their site, and the answer basically boiled down to this: a moderator has to take at ...
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Community notice: October 2023 layoff announcement [duplicate]
I’d like to call your attention to today’s blog post from Prashanth. Unfortunately, we’ve made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by roughly 28%. There are more details at the blog, and I ...
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Thank you, Geoff
It seems that after 11 years, Geoff Dalgas - "Valued Associate #00003" - has decided to hang up his hat as a developer at Stack Exchange.
That deserves... Some recognition and gratitude!
Let'...
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Goodbye and thank you, Jaydles!
Today is Jay Hanlon’s (aka Jaydles) last day at Stack Overflow. Since I’ve been working with him for nearly 7 years now, I wanted to take a minute to wish him a public goodbye.
Jay joined us way back ...
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Thank you, Catija
I've had the pleasure of working with some great community managers here. Cat is one of those folks who's always been cheerful, and deeply cared about this spot. We often nagged her to go to sleep ...
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Thank You, V2Blast
V2Blast is one of those folks who - to me represented a rare mix of skills. I knew him before he was hired and I often found he was a tireless advocate of the places he community managed at and ...
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Who are Stack Overflow Valued Associates?
I have seen "Stack Overflow Valued Associate" on many user profiles. What does it mean?
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What is a Curator? What is the Curator Team?
The recent Stack Exchange platform roadmap makes many references to "Curators", a "Curator Team", and a "Curator Support Team":
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/28/the-...
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Does Stack Exchange offer internships?
As a high school student, a future college student, and someone who loves coding and answering questions on SO, I was wondering if there was a Stack Exchange internship, or perhaps something similar, ...
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Would like to see more employee animations [closed]
There was a recent change in the design of the team page, removing all animations.
This request has become irrelevant due to this. Thanks for all the supporters!
In the team page, 40 employees got a ...
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What super-powers does SE staff have, that diamond moderators do not have?
What super-powers do SE staff have, that diamond moderators do not?
See also:
Who are the diamond moderators, and what is their role?
Differentiate between employees and moderators
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Where can I access a list of users who are Stack Exchange employees?
I checked multiple related questions and the only answer I found is a now defunct link: https://stackexchange.com/about/team. It redirects me to https://stackoverflow.com/company (which is weird in ...
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Why are moderators who become Stack Exchange employees required to resign as moderators as a condition of employment?
In an answer to a related question I asked yesterday, a Stack Exchange community manager said:
Remember that when a moderator is hired as a Stack Exchange employee, they have to step down as a ...
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How to search for questions from ♦ users (moderators / Valued Associates <--- employees )?
We have announcements on Meta SE but it could be used by anyone, by the other hand we have featured on Meta sites but it's not always used and it isn't kept forever.
Is there a way to search for ...
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Maybe we need a 'generic' account for some staff activities
Every year, we end up needing to get community managers to get someone to change the selected answer for this post. If I understand correctly, this needs a bit of a special tool or developer time. We ...
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Hire one (or more) "official" lawyer to roam the [legal] questions on the SE network
IANAL et al. is usually the start of answers to [legal] questions on any SE site (e.g. this). You usually end up with personal opinions which sound sensible and the accepted answer is often the one ...
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Farewell Yaakov and thanks for the haiku!
You may soon notice one fewer diamond around the site. The amazing developer, tech lead, and community advocate Yaakov Ellis - user 51(!) - has taken an opportunity elsewhere and today, December 7th, ...
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How do users escalate concerns about an abusive employee?
Is there a formal grievance policy for reporting incidents where you believe an employee of Stack Exchange has been malicious towards a user of the network?
I'm looking for some official, ideally ...
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So long, Sklivvz
Today we all learned that, after tomorrow (also known as "today" in UTC+ parts of the world), Sklivvz will no longer be a Stack Overflow employee. This marks the end of a nearly four-year run as a ...
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Avoid "shipping" news on a Friday evening
We learned (or were painfully reminded, rather) to never ship at 6 PM (EDT) on a Friday. We didn’t follow that rule last week and as a result there was a lot of confusion over the weekend. Even more, ...
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Who in the company is responsible for accessibility?
We've had a number of accessibility concerns/complaints lately:
"The Loop May 2020" contains inaccessible image with no transcription (May 26, 2020)
Changes to the close dialogue have ...
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