A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies

Post by altfredd » Wed, Oct 02, 2019, 1:00 PM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #309

Jun8 wrote: post #56

My understanding is that the train of events that resulted in mod Monica Cellio’s demodding from SE started with a gender-related complaint tweet ( https://medium.com/@cellio/dear-stack-overflow-we-need-to-ta... ). Companies are now very sensitive to this pattern, esp. true for SE due to the ongoing changes there.

You know, maybe removing a whole site from the "Hot Network Questions" list is the easiest thing to do technically , if the goal is to stop certain questions from that site from showing up in that list right now ? Mods should have cooler heads than this, I think.

Post by baud147258 » Wed, Oct 02, 2019, 3:48 PM UTC

baud147258 wrote: post #59

thrownaway954 wrote: post #48

In order for a community to succeed, there must be a continual rotation of the people in power so that no one can be corrupted by it. Moderators to me are the same as a dictatorship. There shouldn't be any moderators on SE, the community should be voting on what is valid question and upvoting the best answers as it has always done. There is no need for a single person to police each community. If something is off top…

I think the issue is not just moderator vs rest of the community, but also SE company (well, its employees) vs the moderator vs the rest of the community, with all groups having different purposes and goal (and even the moderators and community have more sub-groups, around openness, quality, governance and so on). It's not just the case of mods having too much power.

Post by falsedan » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 7:47 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #324

falsedan wrote: post #322

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look, I get that you're not used to being called out on being hopelessly wrong. rephrasing the statement to be an empty tautology so you can be right is a waste of both of our times and only serves to protect your ego

Whoa, please don't break the site guidelines like that! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Post by apta » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

doordonot wrote: post #317

wendyshu wrote: post #238

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Aha, the Jordan Peterson issue.

Yes, it's exactly the same issue; FORCING specific speech which is quite different than BANNING some speech (hate speech for instance).

Post by aeorgnoieang » Fri, Oct 04, 2019, 9:10 PM UTC

cy_hauser wrote: post #81

latk wrote: post #17

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There is a perpetual tension between those who want SE to be helping everyone, and those who want to curate a helpful resource. People involved with community moderation aspects tend to fall into the latter group. For the last half decade or so SE has progressively abandoned this latter group, leading to a lot of pent-up frustration. Some changes SE has made are sensible (e.g. striving to be more welcoming and more i…

>> There is a perpetual tension between those who want SE to be helping everyone, and those who want to curate a helpful resource. I never understood this. Why have one or the other instead of both. All questions funnel in on a "everyone" area for a particular type of question. (Junior people can moderate those to gain experience if the senior mods don't want to. This will give them experience, insight, etc.) Even th…