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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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
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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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.
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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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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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I can't see if I've already voted on something
As far as I recall, the new voting buttons resemble those of around-2015-era. Nothing good or bad in that fact in particular, however by looking into the old icons we may come to a trade-off / ...
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Why is there one remaining page on Windows Phone Meta SE?
Lies!
There's more than one, across both meta and main. What else are they hiding from us?
https://windowsphone.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/279/create-just-one-se-for-all-windows?noredirect=1&...
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Change the attach-pictures icon to something more appropriate?
This made me curious, so I did Google search for "image upload icon".
Those are the image results:
This pretty much speaks for itself. All top results are what SE are using, then there are ...
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Visited Calendar pop out on user activity pages missing
The culprit is the following function:
StackExchange.loadJqueryUi = function() {
var cssLink = StackExchange.settings.paths.jQueryUICSSPath
, jsLink = StackExchange.settings.paths....
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Front Page Not Updating For All Site
This is a real bug in SE's code
This is, in fact, a bug in SE's code. The function StackExchange.tagPreferences.isIgnored(tags) is called as StackExchange.tagPreferences.isIgnored(post.tags) within ...
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Unable to delete my answer
I did check in with a dev to look at the error logs and it seems like we coincidentally had a bunch of SQL timeouts around the time you reported this bug. That means that while we do see your attempts ...
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I can't see if I've already voted on something
Looks like this has been fixed, at least on MSE:
The color when I hover over it also changes:
On other sites, it still looks like these:
[Hinduism] [English] [Hinduism Meta]
(Edit: Apparently it'...
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When did Stack Exchange start to dual-license user content?
The terms which provide both licenses existed at least back to 2010-06-09, which is the first capture I'd previously found on archive.org of the Terms of Service:
You agree that all Subscriber ...
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Server error when attempting to use the inquestion:<id> and inquestion:this search operators
Looks like the same issue is happening with the inquestion:x search term on all posts on all sites. Repeated testing of this with different questions yields the same message.
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
As someone who has been working on programing and data analysis on computers since 1981, I am very concerned about allowing people to submit answers that are not a product of their own minds but a ...
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Improve post-notice for sourceless answers
Arguably the bug is that a moderator is allowed to apply a post notice with a description that starts with "This question" to not-a-question. The following are available on all SE sites, and ...
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Visited Calendar pop out on user activity pages missing
If it helps, I can reproduce this on MSE with a computer running Windows 10 22H2. My browser version is Firefox 116.0.3 (64-bit).
Here's what I get in the browser console, if it helps (on AU):
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Accepted
Why does deleting my own question tell me that I have flagged it as "spam or offensive content"?
You can't flag your own post except for moderator attention. This is because of another user's flag.
This is what happens when there's even a single spam or rude flag that hasn't been cleared on a ...
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Server error when attempting to use the inquestion:<id> and inquestion:this search operators
status-completed
Seems to be fixed now. I've tested it with different questions and different sites and none of them error now.
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