498 votes

Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

Background from a striking SO mod who handled 10000+ GPT flags I’m a Stack Overflow moderator coming here to give more details on what management has said that’s helped caused me to decide to join the ...
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We need "assume good intent" back in the Code of Conduct

This was always the most beautiful part of what we've been trying to build here for the past decade or more. It reminded us to always try for a charitable interpretation and not jump to conclusions. ...
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We need "assume good intent" back in the Code of Conduct

Yes, we should put "assume good intentions" back. To give some background, I quote from Gilles's excellent answer about the changes to the policy: The old “be nice” policy told us to Be ...
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208 votes

Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

Here's a list of per-site meta discussions related to the strike (largely gathered from searching "is:q created:2023-05-30.. strike [discussion]" on stackexchange.com, sorted based on site ...
starball's user avatar
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

So far, this is the closest thing that we have to an official response from the company, found in an article on Dev Class. Speaking for myself, this is not a good start. The trigger for the current ...
Thomas Owens's user avatar
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Dear SE, please stop disparaging the moderators in the press

Moderators worked with Stack Exchange to develop the GPT policy I fully expect that page to disappear soon so I'll paste it below. A few important things to take away from this policy: "While ...
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Dear SE, please stop disparaging the moderators in the press

Also from that article: In a statement sent to Dev Class, Stack Overflow’s Beaudette told us: “A small number of moderators (11%) across the Stack Overflow network have stopped engaging in several ...
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Dear SE, please stop disparaging the moderators in the press

Frankly, I find this quite frustrating. Stack Exchange already promised us a blanket no comment policy in 2019, then revoked that and replaced it with a more elaborate "no comment on individuals&...
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82 votes

We need "assume good intent" back in the Code of Conduct

I not only want to echo the sentiments of those who want this phrasing restored, but I would also like to elevate Ben Kovitz's comment on a different post: @KateGregory Properly it should be "...
Thomas Owens's user avatar
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74 votes

Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

Power to the striking moderators! 100% support from us users. A Strike song for some inspiration... Having said that, I think the demands do not go nearly far enough. Like the opening post here said, ...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

This is my personal opinion and not necessarily representative of all of the moderators, curators, and users on strike. The first company response on Meta Stack Exchange was incredibly underwhelming. ...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

Mainly focussing on the title, with the statement that "Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers": That's wrong. Of course they can. Obviously. ...
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Dear SE, please stop disparaging the moderators in the press

They don't care about power users or mods or even take us seriously. This is illustrated by the fact that they don't reply properly to any concerns or queries raised whenever a situation like this ...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

Reveal to the community the internal AI policy given directly to moderators. The fact that you have made one point in private, and one in public, which differ so significantly has put the moderators ...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

This is peripheral to the question, but pertinent: I'm perplexed as to why the company is seeking to destroy itself in this manner. While a useful amount of AI output is reasonably accurate and useful,...
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34 votes

We need "assume good intent" back in the Code of Conduct

I couldn't agree more. We need this. And while we're at it, please also put back friendliness and kindness that have been stripped out of the new CoC. The terms are used and explained in the lower ...
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We need "assume good intent" back in the Code of Conduct

Recently I was at a talk where the speaker, who was confident and funny, made a tiny little aside, just a few words long, that suggested, well let's say it was members of a particular profession or ...
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31 votes

Single "recommend deletion" action in Late Answers queue ends the review

I think you've uncovered a huge bug here in how these reviews are supposed to work, at least if I understand the handy-dandy review queues flowchart (from this post) correctly. Here's the Late Answers ...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

I wrote a user style to hide the review queue, downvote, VTC, VTD, delete, undelete, and flag buttons/links.
Someone's user avatar
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29 votes

Can we have a way to edit bounty custom message?

Several times now I've really, really wanted to edit a bounty notice now for moderation purposes. Today a bounty was flagged for using excessive emoji. The bounty was already well under way, and had ...
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28 votes

Can't delete the filter called My Filter

Adding details in hopes of getting developer attention. Reproducing the issue from a clean state. I believe this may be how to reproduce this issue. I can't verify, because I'm already in the broken ...
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27 votes

Please make the canned feedback options in the new first questions/answers queues configurable per site

bug We got a canned comment asking for working code on RPG. Here is the comment. The answer was reviewed in the First Answers queue here. Staff Kristinalustig stated in this comment: The code-...
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26 votes

Please make the canned feedback options in the new first questions/answers queues configurable per site

First I want to confirm that Math.SE also gets a canned response referring to "working code and documentation citations" in the first answers queue, which is often inappropriate. The latest ...
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Please make the canned feedback options in the new first questions/answers queues configurable per site

Code Review Code Review is a code related site. However Code Review is for asking "how can I improve my code" not "what is the answer to X" style questions, unlike much of SE. As ...
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21 votes

Please make the canned feedback options in the new first questions/answers queues configurable per site

English Language Learners On ELL the canned comments aren't helping. Initially they contained references to "showing the code". However that may be fixed. But more fundamentally, the ...
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21 votes

I can't see if I've already voted on something

This is what a downvote looks like on the math.se main site: There might be even less contrast than in yours. We're like the second or third biggest sub-site. Did they not bother to check what it ...
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19 votes
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I can't see anything - Teams banner and cookie toaster obscure my whole screen

Yesterday a banner about Stack Overflow for Teams was made live and we've heard how this has been impacting community members' experience on the site. This coupled with some known bugs around the ...
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19 votes

Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

The purpose of this answer is to provide an indication of the financial motivation for SE's decisions. In all humility I would suggest that one cannot assign motive for any particular actions without ...
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