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Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council

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Post by sandoooo »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #40
cloudc0de wrote: post #28

Is there any community woke scolds won't ruin? (In relation to firing of SE mod Monica).

Communities that ignore them apparently do well.

Until they get demonetized and deplatformed, at least.

On that note, I've always found the continual survival of 4chan rather suspicious.

Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council

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Post by goatinaboat »

sosodev wrote: post #22
dancek wrote: post #10

For those unaware of the context, StackExchange fired a (volunteer) moderator in September causing a wave of moderator resignations. Now in January they fired two Community Managers (ie. employees) and a third CM resigned. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342039/firing-commu...

I’m not sure how I feel about the ethics of volunteers massively contributing to the growth of a for-profit company. StackExchange wouldn’t be anywhere near as big as they are without its volunteers and yet they only care about their bottom line. Are there any non-profit alternatives?

Stack Overflow is a bait-and-switch. They tricked volunteers into writing all their valuable content but now those contributors are finding that the bait of community participation and prestige was just a sham. SO will extract as much value as they can from having the critical mass but without volunteers creating new content (answers) they will soon become a tumbleweed site of people “facing an issue” asking plaintively how to “do the needful” into the vacuum.

Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council

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Post by ramblerman »

I hope they really lose from this.

You have a great Q and A platform, that works well where most people use aliases.

And for whatever reason they had to introduce gender as a core concept. Whereas before nobody gave a crap if the asker or the replier was male/female or whatever, it was about the questions. Now you have to make sure your question is addressing the other person correctly. Putting the actual answer in second place..

It's just so absurd. And to think they did this after taking VC money as a means to grow faster. I can't fathom having less business IQ.

Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council

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Post by dgrin91 »

sosodev wrote: post #22
dancek wrote: post #10

For those unaware of the context, StackExchange fired a (volunteer) moderator in September causing a wave of moderator resignations. Now in January they fired two Community Managers (ie. employees) and a third CM resigned. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342039/firing-commu...

I’m not sure how I feel about the ethics of volunteers massively contributing to the growth of a for-profit company. StackExchange wouldn’t be anywhere near as big as they are without its volunteers and yet they only care about their bottom line. Are there any non-profit alternatives?

There is a non-profit, open source alternative being built now: Codidact [0]. Many of the people building it are former members of SO, including Monica Cellio.

[0] https://codidact.org/

Re: Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council

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Post by z3t4 »

NobodyNada wrote: post #13

Stack Overflow has been trying VERY aggressively to monetize the site lately. In just the past 12 months: - They’ve backpedaled on their formerly strict ad policy, now allowing animated ads [0] and trackers [1], and their quality control has become very poor [2]. - They changed the homepage to market their new SaaS product instead of the Q&A site [3] - They replaced their CEO (who was a cofounder) with a new one who…

Hopefully they wont go full circle and become what they originally set to erupt. eg. experts exchange.
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