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There's an interesting Buzzfeed article: Bernstein, The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia, June 27, 2019. It shows striking similarity to the current happenings here. Quoting Cherry picking …

If you want to access Stack Overflow from your phone, you can use your mobile browser. I live in China, and I haven't figured out how to get a VPN working on my phone. I still use the Stack Exchang …

An objection to the original (now-deleted) pronoun-related FAQ was in regards to coerced speech. See for example Bye Stack Exchange, I'm done. Coerced speech is incompatible with freedom. From what …

Weighing up the pros and cons, I'd have to say overall "no". It's very site dependent. Compare: Stack Overflow and Math.SE attract users who repeatedly post poor questions, and slowly accumulate …

$85 million undoubtedly comes with major strings attached: a veritable obligatory-feature-request tag. Qn: What strings are attached? Without knowing precisely what those strings are, the community ca …

I've been here for 10+ years now*. Like for a lot of people, Stack Exchange isn't a random website: it's a major chunk of my life. Years ago, Stack Exchange and the Community worked side-by-side tow …

Company claims growth led to company-community noncommunication: "I mean it when I say we screwed up, and we want to have a meaningful ongoing discussion. …

I'll give my advice from a suicidal person's perspective. (I don't know much about self-harm, but I guess there's a lot of overlap.) TL;DR: The Joiner model of suicide has three necessary and suffic …

I'd like to see some example questions to get a clearer mental picture. I get the feeling different people are envisaging different things. When will that be possible? Do I need to wait until July …

It seems non-coincidental that the paper by May, Wachs, and Hannák (2019) was published online on the 8-th February 2019, shortly prior to the recent change to question reputation points (13-th Novemb …

Do people feel they are, or will be, safer and/or more welcome, for example? I transitioned years ago. Nowadays I'm aware that people (on the internet or otherwise) who stir up trouble do it be …

Isn't the simplest explanation because Stack Exchange believes the statements to be true? Or, at least, that they consider them accurate enough to not warrant a retraction? I'm not saying I believe …

Your feedback made it clear that your concerns were mostly about the way the change was handled, and not so much about any specific version of the CC BY-SA license. We’re looking at ways that we, a …

What did we do? The site skipped the usual process of Area 51, and instead opted for an "experimental" launch method. In practice, this turned out to be a chat room and a Teams instance. When I sign …

For example: If the community decides to allow it, they can vote to re-open, and if the discussion clearly indicates support for the topic, you can re-open. Shog9, 2012 (cont.) …