Questions tagged [stack-exchange-team]
For questions about the team of people behind the Stack Exchange network (developers, community managers, etc.), also known as employees of Stack Overflow (the company). They can be identified by an orange "Staff" badge on their flair and user profiles.
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Do staff that leave SE still participate in the community or do they just keep their rep/status and become regular users?
I've seen a couple of Farewell posts. Do staff with high or low rep keep it after they leave the company as a status/symbol, or do they come back as regular users and just help the community?
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2023 Layoff impacting 58 SO/SE staff (2023-05-10)
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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Former(?) staff member still listed as moderator on Area 51
It seems Nicolas Chabanovsky left the company? I am not sure if there will be an announcement like this one – if not, спасибо Nicholas for all the work you've done!
Let me honor you with a bug report: ...
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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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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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Comment author's username shifts downward (compared to the rest of the line) on narrow screens
On narrow screens (e.g., Android Chrome), the username of a comment author is displayed shifted downward in the comment section (especially for users with the "Staff" and "Mod" ...
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Staff label is not shown beside the staff username in 'Recent Badges'
This is how the 'Recent Badges' section looks like in MSE home page: (you have to hide hot network questions in the profile settings in order to see it)
When I saw a particular user, whom I did not ...
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Has a mandatory comment for the vote system ever been trialled?
I have seen discussions of a mandatory comment system for downvotes discussed both on and off Stack Exchange sites.
Take for example this community wiki discussion. The accepted answers raises some ...
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Is Stack Exchange going to limit content related to work about open-source code or statistical data likely to be under a ban in the United States?
The Office of Foreign Assets Control which is the agency for managing sanctions, took sanctions not only against the organisation of an open source project, but made it broad enough to target the open ...
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Consider having someone spot-check the rendering of blog posts after they are posted [duplicate]
We've had a few bugs about issues with the rendering of blog posts, including unloaded characters in the blog post title, broken links, HTML entities appearing in the text, etc. After discussing the ...
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Do we really need "new contributor" messages for Stack Exchange staff?
From this Chess.SE meta post we have:
It feels a bit mismatched for this message to pop up for Stack Exchange staff.
Question: Do we really need "new contributor" messages for Stack ...
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What is a "valued" associate in 2022?
Two days ago, Emerson joined the T&S team. As the title suggests, he is considered as a "valued associate".
This led me to the question: What is a valued associate and do you have "...
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Old account of new staff member is showing up as a moderator here on Meta
As another result of an account merge gone wrong, and similar to Who is Samuel Ordonez and why are they a moderator here?, the old account of new staff member @Emerson is showing up as a ♦ moderator ...
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Inconsistency in reputation (history) for new hire
There seems to be something wrong with the vote-to-reputation converter or whatever it's called.
This answer by the new Valued Associate received 12 upvotes so far:
but his reputation is only 21, ...
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Add a date range filter to the mass URL replacement tool
Stack Exchange staff has a simple search-and-replace tool to rewrite (broken) links without bumping the post. Can it be extended with a date range filter, so that it can update posts which were ...
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How are 'status-deferred' and 'status-declined' used by staff?
This isn't covered by How does Meta Stack Exchange work?, as that just explains the tags, but I want to know how they are used by the staff. From experience this differs from the tag description.
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Announcing our new Manager, Community Trust & Safety: Cesar M
When I joined Stack Overflow (the company, not the site), I was initially asked to work on a nascent Trust and Safety team. This was a new team for the community department, just formed, at the ...
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Are we celebrating Marc Gravell's farewell on /users?tab=moderators page of every site? :)
While checking the list of moderators on a main site, I'm surprised to find the name of a staff member! Yes, Marc Gravell is appearing on all sites.
Here is a screenshot of /users?tab=moderators page ...
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Thank you, Marc Gravell!
Today, valued associate #6 Marc Gravell announced he's leaving the company:
Excited, scared, happysad.
The end of a personal era; after over 11 years (https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/06/09/welcome-...
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Does Stack Exchange have a mechanism to ask users about changes? [duplicate]
Sometimes we get fait accompli declarations like
We’ve removed the option to disable the fixed top bar
which turn out to get lots of downvotes. I am sure that I don't need to quote more than just ...
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Thank you, Jarrod Dixon
Jarrod Dixon, Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00002, announced yesterday that he is no longer working at Stack Overflow:
@jarrod_dixon: After over 13 years at @StackOverflow, today is my last day :(
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What's one thing that you wish we remembered?
Twice this week, I heard some permutation on the phrase "if only [they (mods, staff)] knew that we...."
In the first case, it was "if only the staff knew how much time we spend on sock ...
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Farewell, Brian!
Thursday we said goodbye to Brian Nickel, the dev largely responsible for the (sadly, now de-listed) Stack Exchange iOS app... but he's done much more than that in his time here as a valued member of ...
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So long, and thanks for all the fish Nick Craver!
Some folks tend to leave an indelible impression on the spaces they've been in, whether or not they're noticed. While admittedly, most of my interactions with Nick have been off the sites proper - ...
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Staff members no longer have Staff labels on their main sites profile page
Here's what the username line looks like on RPG main
And meta (sorry @Slate, I just happened to spot it on your profile):
From a brief investigation, this appears to affect all staff and ...
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What are the criteria for becoming an employee of Stack Overflow?
I am new on this site and was reading this question. First of all congratulations to user Slate and user Charlotte. I have some questions:
If someone wants to become a Stack Overflow staff member, ...
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Constable Grace Note?
Stack Exchange employee Grace Note appears on the list of Constable badges for Literature SE. They were never a moderator there, neither appointed nor elected. This must be some sort of bug in the ...
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Are Philippe and Rosie doppelgängers?
Looking at the profile of Sara Chipps ♦ (our Director of community), something struck me as odd. She has recently posted, amongst others, two posts welcoming the latest additions to the CM team, ...
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New Community Managers have no "staff" indicator in their profile
Since July 2019, Employee profiles are now marked with a “Staff” indicator.
This worked well and people working for Stack Exchange back then indeed got the indicator, however looks like it stopped ...
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What's the difference between a regular CM and a Staff CM?
I noticed there was an opening for a Staff CM on the work here page.
Broadly speaking - the requirements are identical to our regular CMs.
Requirements seem the same, with the 3-5 year experience ...
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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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Is the SE feature request triage team overworked?
This feature request has been out there for 6 months with no real answer. It's not a major enhancement - it's just reversing a (seemingly useless) change.
I don't expect an immediate change. But after ...
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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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Thank you, Tim Post [duplicate]
https://twitter.com/tinkertim/status/1326989993928237057
Tomorrow is my last day at @StackOverflow. I can't begin to say how grateful I am to everyone that made the last (almost) 8 years of my career ...
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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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What exactly is the Community Evangelist role and what does it mean?
There is a Stack Exchange staff member with the role "Community Evangelist", as mentioned here:
This person is not part of the Community Management Team, where their role is explained.
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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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Policy for SE employees influencing community decisions using mod powers
Under what conditions, if ever, is it acceptable for SE employees to influence community matters on the Meta site of a community they do not actively participate in by upvoting or downvoting posts?
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We need a "former staff" account flag
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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Is the Stack Exchange Meta site advertised?
I've noticed that there are a low number of users on Stack Exchange Meta, compared to other SE sites, such as Stack Overflow. Do the Stack Exchange Team ever advertise this site?
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What recourse do I have if I believe an SO employee has unfairly declined a feature request? [closed]
I made a feature request a while back, and a Staff-marked user (who is a paid employee, as I understand correctly) marked it status-declined before the community had voted much on it (must have been -...
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Can Community Moderators and Stack Overflow employees post answers on closed questions?
Since this doesn't appear to have been asked before:
Can elected moderators (and Community Managers, and other Stack Overflow employees) post answers on Questions that have been closed? This would ...
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Text color change for "Staff" and "Moderator" indicator [duplicate]
As per the post, Employee profiles are marked with a "Staff" and "Moderator" indicator. The below screenshot was taken from the announcement post.
The below is the current screenshot taken from ...
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Strange blue line in profile page of relatively new staff member [duplicate]
The profile page of this staff member has a strange blue line next to the Staff indicator:
Looking at the HTML source, I presume this is because they're not ranked yet:
This only seems to happen for ...
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What privileges and tools do Stack Exchange developers (not merely staff) have access to? [closed]
In the spirit of What privileges and tools do staff members without a diamond have access to?, I'd like to ask a similar question, but for users with the developer bit specifically (not just the ...
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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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Post-mortem or root cause analysis of the recent issues (late 2019-early 2020)
Teresa Dietrich recently posted regarding her and the company's efforts to restore community trust and repair the recent unpleasant issues.
Now that the company is making at least some meaningful ...
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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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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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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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