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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Some improvements to blockquotes
Update
Sorry for the delay! I’ve been thinking about this feedback in between my other projects, and I’ve landed where I’ve started 😕
I’ve made sure to continue highlighting spoilers in gray. The ...
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Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms
What are the common phrases, words, abbreviations that are used on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, Meta Stack Overflow, and the other Stack Exchange sites?
This is meant to be a very quick ...
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What are some deferred, ignored, or sunset projects we wish SE would work on to facilitate the community?
We all have our pet projects - things we wish SE would do but which seem to be forever stuck in the backlog pile. Other times, something that's well received gets forgotten in the shuffle.
Inspired by ...
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What is needed for users to trust the Stack Exchange company?
As one of the "curators" on strike I follow as much of the conversations and progress as I can. I again and again encounter the trust issue, which is a festering wound that seems to be ...
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About your f***ing website
Presented for your enjoyment-slash-amusement.
Email received by [email protected] from Name
Jesus Christ Almighty, what a f***ing mess of a website. I'm trying to post a question. Just the ...
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Design Vision Updates to the User Card
Background
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the design of the platform, which so far has included colors (original post and follow-up) and border-radius adjustments, we're now focusing on ...
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May 2023 layoff impacting 58 SO/SE staff
A few minutes ago, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar posted a note to our blog to share the news that Stack Overflow has made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by 58 people, or about 10% of our ...
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What *does* a community manager need to be?
UPDATE 5/5/2021: I had someone from SE management reach out and apologise for the wording of the communications with me. They've clarified that the reasons are entirely geographical and time zone ...
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Let's talk about (community) health
In my team, we spend a lot of time thinking about the nebulously defined concept of "community health". It seems to be one of those things that everyone knows is important, but nobody can ...
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What does Prashanth mean by "Community" in his blogposts, and how do the mods influence his perception of it?
A few weeks ago, I posted an answer to New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI asking for an interpretation of the CEO's words for the regular users of Meta Stack Exchange.
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Will SE seek and act on community input in developing OverflowAI?
SE announced OverflowAI today, another attempt to incorporate GenAI into the sites. From reading this post, the uses actually sound like they could be helpful; I certainly hope they are. If they are ...
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The company appears to have been particularly reticent, even somewhat secretive, regarding communications during the past several months
My reading of thousands of posts here, from over most of the time period going back to shortly after SO started, indicates the company has often not done a particularly good job of communicating with ...
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Can we have some statistics on the potential change in rate of comment flags?
With the changes in the Code of Conduct and all the publicity around being unwelcoming. It feels like we've been on an express train of changes.
I could be wrong, but I suspect there's been a rise in ...
user310756
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Why are some Stack Exchange sites so inactive?
Why are some Stack Exchange sites so inactive?
For instance, Writing.SE shows questions from 2 weeks ago on its homepage, and it appears to have very low overall activity as well (including a large ...
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Practical effects of the October 2023 layoff
I hope that by now you’ve all had a chance to read and digest the announcement and the blog post about today’s layoff.
This was not an easy decision to make, nor is this an easy conversation to have. ...
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Let us go to the timeline of the post from homepage
This is how the homepage looks like:
Beside the username, we have words like "asked", "answered", "modified", + date and time.
When the mouse pointer is over those words,...
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Is there any publicly available record since 2022 of Prashanth chatting with Meta Stack Exchange core community members?
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This is a follow-up of some of my posts related to Meta Stack Exchange posts related to Prashanth's words.
During 2023 staff have brought the words of Prashanth, the Stack Overflow, Inc. CEO, to ...
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When posting announcements either post them as QUESTIONS so that people can actually answer or make the entire thread LOCKED if no input is wanted
Recently Stack Exchange posted a new question about a policy on AI generated content.
What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content?
The post was made as a fake question, with the actual ...
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404: Q1 2022 Community team roadmap not found
Since we are now on our way into the second month of the Q2 of 2022, it is time to address the elephant in the room: where is the Q1 2022 Community team roadmap? It hasn't been published on the blog; ...
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Does Stack Overflow Inc have a 'plan B' for their current AI strategy failing?
As a long time user, I've seen SE go through multiple cycles of trying to find new revenue sources (Careers, Teams, and now AI), and when it fails we go through cycles of downsizing like the most ...
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Are you interested in Prompt Design? Join the Community Stakeholders group
Update #2
As promised, you can follow along for summarized updates on the work the stakeholder group is undertaking.
You can find that here
Update #1
Thank you to everyone who took the time to throw ...
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What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content? [closed]
Earlier this week, Stack Exchange released guidance to moderators on how to moderate AI Generated content. What does this guidance include?
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
For posts following this one, see:
An example of a generative AI tool: Suggesting better question titles
AI/ML Tool examples part 3 - Title-Drafting Assistant
Stack Overflow will be testing a title-...
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Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive
Update 1
I’ve restored the profile age to all and fixed a few bugs y’all reported. I’ll be addressing individual answers as best as I can.
Original post
On our way to a fully responsive Stack Overflow,...
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We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
Update
This experiment has been graduated. The new styling for vote arrows is now live across the Stack Exchange network.
About a year ago, the Product team, focused on improving the general ...
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New post summary designs on site home pages and greatest hits now; everywhere else eventually
Update 3 - 2022-02-01
We've rolled out another small set of changes + bugfixes. The largest change was that we removed the yellow from watched tags entirely, leaving just the new "watched" ...
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New responsive Activity page
Update 2 - December 8, 2021: We’ve shipped a bunch of refinements over the last 24 hours or so. We’re going through the bugs and design requests and marking them with the proper tags. There’s a lot ...
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