Timeline for Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm; it's time to fix it!
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| Oct 30, 2019 at 2:39 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | @Crowman Good points. Nonetheless, $80m p.a. is 500x the income of a high-level professional. I'm also overlooking that a company this size will have indemnity insurance, so a decision to defend or settle may not even be the company's to make. Hopefully the first thing Monica uses her crowdfunding for will be expert legal advice on what her options are, including likely timeframes and risks. It's a truly awful position SO/SE has put her in, but we can help their execs to see that resolving matters is in the company's best interests. | |
| Oct 30, 2019 at 0:02 | comment | added | Crowman | @ReinstateMonica: $80m in revenue is pretty piddling little company in the grand scheme of things, this isn't the kind of organization which can just send this type of complaint to the legal department and everyone else can stop worrying about it. But more importantly, as the principal agent of the alleged defamation, presumably Sara Chipps would be named personally in any complaint, and anyone who's been involved in these situations will know the company's lawyers absolutely will not have her back when push comes to shove, even if they initially claim they have. | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 18:54 | comment | added | April Salutes Monica C. | Straight people tend to assume everyone is straight, Christians that just about everyone is Christian, and white people that the people who matter are white: Again, I'm just admitting my default assumptions of how I "fill in the gaps" until more specifics are given. It was meant to be a mere self-deprecatingly humorous line. sheesh! | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 18:31 | comment | added | April Salutes Monica C. | @LightnessRaceswithMonica - re: why midatlantic? because that's where I'm from and am, and I admit my bias | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 0:10 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | @user56reinstatemonica8 The "public Q&A" you're familiar with is a tiny division of their business, which is why the recent turmoil here will barely register at exec level. See their About page for their other 4 key product divisions; it says they have 250+ employees. This 2015 post valued the company at $459 million. A recent article forecasts their current year revenue at $80 million. | |
| Oct 27, 2019 at 22:46 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | @ReinstateMonica Is StackOverflow Inc a "Multi-million dollar company"? A recent blog post has their "Public Q&A team" at 9 people - covering management, tech and design for stackoverflow.com and every other stackexchange Q&A site. I believe their legal department is one guy - there was a link to his profile somewhere (I think it was a deleted comment here? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333678/… ). Not taking on Malboro or Microsoft here. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 13:42 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | "unless otherwise specified, I assume everyone is in the mid-Atlantic region of the US" Why's that? | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 6:02 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | Sorry to pop a well-intentioned thought bubble, but I think any suggestion of Monica bringing a lawsuit against a multi-million dollar company is simply naive. The biggest crowdfunding campaign imaginable would still run out of money long before a judgement could be reached, and if costs were then awarded against the plaintiff, the result is bankruptcy. There's a huge difference between justice and winning a lawsuit. | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 17:30 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | Did anyone, at any point in the past, tell MC that her behaviour was under review? Were there ever any complaints reported by Contact Support of any episode of rudeness or sign of disrespect toward anyone who was or is a non-binary person? We don't know the answer to any of these questions, so we cannot advise MC, that is the job of a professional lawyer/attorney. | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 17:27 | comment | added | hayd | I suspect SO Inc also has a duty of care to their unpaid volunteers (moderators). | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 17:17 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | and later commented: Responding here …. We aren't going to re-litigate the past. We can't share more details as they involve real people, both moderators and people that work here. This suggests that they have some kind of documented evidence. It could also mean they are bluffing... | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 17:16 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | @April It is claimed that Monica violated the CoC, if there is no evidence to uphold that statement, then you proceed with a suit. But the Director has repeatedly said on Yodeya and elsewhere: When a moderator violates that [a spirit of inclusion and respect], we will always do our best to resolve it with them privately. When we can’t we must take action. | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 17:10 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @GeorgeStocker the non-apology post here on Meta made claims that are falsifiable. | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 16:43 | comment | added | Ian Ringrose | @MonicaCellio unless your legal team thinks it is better to target TheRegistor on any action. | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 16:28 | comment | added | George Stocker | In the US, for a statement to be defamatory it has to be an objectively false statement; and statements of opinions are not defamatory. "I think <person> is a bigot" is not defamatory. That's an opinion. See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#Other_defenses | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 15:05 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | I'm in the US (Pennsylvania). SE HQ is in New York, so New York law is what applies here (and US, of course). | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 14:22 | comment | added | Laf | Her profile states she's in Pittsburgh, PA. Don't know it it is up to date though. | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 14:12 | history | answered | April Salutes Monica C. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |