Linked Questions
42 questions linked to/from Stack Exchange is failing its community
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Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?
The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no ...
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Firing Community Managers: Stack Exchange is not interested in cooperating with the community, is it?
Less than a month ago, there was some settling of the incident with firing Monica. It's obvious that there was not a lot of approval from the community on the course of action chosen by SE, or the ...
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Why were the Code of Conduct changes received so negatively, and what can / could have been done to change that?
The announcement of the Code of Conduct changes had a score of -1922 (with 2371 downvotes). I can't remember a change announcement being received so negatively; it's an order of magnitude higher than (...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
Update
On August 2nd, 2023, negotiations between community representatives and representatives of the company concluded with an agreement being reached. The details of the agreement can be found at ...
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The "loop" has arrived. What does the community think about it?
According to plan, SE Inc. has released a lengthy blog post about "the loop", and their vision of a new "community feedback" system. Or something:
TLDR; We’re going to be sharing our product ...
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We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021
Update 3 - The changes from round 2 are live, but with one notable exception: On Linux, we spec’d “Liberation Sans” and “Liberation Mono”. Did some digging on that PR and installed a few Linux VMs and ...
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Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!
This feature is now live across the network.
We've been doing quite a bit of research into ways that we could help new users have better experiences that ultimately lead them to becoming increasingly ...
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June 2023 Data Dump is missing
The data dump usually gets refreshed the first weekend of the month, every 3 months.
The current data dump is still from March. Is there just a problem and it's delayed like in the past?
Relevant ...
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Why is "The Loop" survey asking about race, age, and gender?
While I understand that "The Loop" is not a research instrument in the same line as what a social scientist would develop, it is still a survey instrument and reflects upon us all (i.e., poorly ...
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Please revert the line-height change!
Just checking how many people feel similar. At least for me, the increased space between lines makes it a nightmare to read. My eyes lack guidance and just feel somehow lost with so much white space.
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Discussion: Network policy regarding AI Generated content
A new Network policy regarding AI Generated content was recently announced by Stack Exchange.
As discussion is not currently permitted on such posts, please discuss the policy in the answers here so ...
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Blog post: CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
The CEO [of SE] recently posted a blog post titled CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center.
Stack Exchange staff haven't posted a request-for-comments on it, so... I ...
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We are updating our Code of Conduct and we would like your feedback
Update, May 31st, 2023: The updated code of conduct has been released network-wide.
A good Code of Conduct is a handshake agreement between users and the company. It is a document that inspires trust ...
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Time for a major shift in strategy and approach
This post is addressed to the people who still believe they have a future at Stack Exchange, and who still hold out some hope that there can be a way out of this mess. If you have no such hope left, I ...
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Every "close" has its thorn: replace "close" with "on hold" for the first five days
That's right, I'm starting this out with a pun. Featuring a Poison song. I'm good with it.
TL;DR
We're looking at replacing [closed] with [on hold]. This sort of thing was proposed in a popular post ...
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