Linked Questions
360 questions linked to/from Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?
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How many more casualties in the war on pronouns? [duplicate]
I've been reading posts and comments all over the network for many years and never felt like I need to register. I've also been watching what's going on here since the pronoun-crisis broke out and I ...
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Will Meta Stack Exchange be removed now?
This is a question related to the new feedback procedures announcement.
This site (Meta Stack Exchange) has various functions: (per the help center)
Meta is for...
... Stack Exchange users ...
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An update on my resignation notice
As promised, I'm on my way out. I am unsustainably exhausted after the past few weeks, and... it's time for me to go. I don't see another way. But I have some final thoughts, and I can't leave in ...
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We need to stop hoping for change in, or help from, SO Inc
This is a message primarily aimed at the avid SE users. Those of us who spend several hours, most every day, asking or answering or editing or closing or reopening or otherwise contributing to the ...
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The new moderator agreement is now live for moderators to accept across the network
Today, we’re announcing that the new moderator agreement is live and the existing moderators are being asked to accept it. This has been a great collaboration to get from a draft in November 2019 to ...
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Please Join Us in Welcoming Our New Meta Stack Exchange Moderators!
We're really excited to announce the appointment of three new community moderators to Meta Stack Exchange! I know this might come as a really big surprise to some, and I can't wait to talk about it, ...
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Joel left, and SE as we know it is dead
The recent blog post, which I don't even want to link to, made it perfectly clear for me. Joel left, and with that SE as we know it died. It will take a while before it's totally gone, but it will go ...
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Does Fram's ban on Wikipedia seem similar to recent events? What can Stack Exchange learn from it?
There's an interesting Buzzfeed article: Bernstein, The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia, June 27, 2019. It shows striking similarity to the current happenings here. Quoting Cherry picking ...
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Where do we go from here?
I came across the resignation letter by Robert Harvey by pure coincidence, a few minutes after he wrote it. Since then, I paid close attention to what happened on MSO and MSE.
I think we have seen ...
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Farewell Yaakov and thanks for the haiku!
You may soon notice one fewer diamond around the site. The amazing developer, tech lead, and community advocate Yaakov Ellis - user 51(!) - has taken an opportunity elsewhere and today, December 7th, ...
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A very recent post asking people to go "on strike" was just deleted
I was just reading a new post suggesting members go "on strike", i.e., stop moderation and similar type duties, for some period of time to get the attention of the SE staff. It was only on the site ...
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Is the Teachers' Lounge toxic, if so why?
To clarify, as described below. I have seen various mods in the past few weeks describe TL as toxic. I have also seen various accounts of very undesirable behaviour that goes on in there. However, I ...
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What data about meta has eluded Stack Exchange until recently?
In the recent blog post there is the following paragraph (emphasis mine):
Opinions and feelings about the best way forward are extremely valid things to consider, but the devil is in the details ...
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How can the community assist in welcoming LGBTQ users?
This is a followup to my question Are there specific issues with unwelcoming behavior toward LGBTQ persons on Stack Exchange? . StrongBad, in a comment replying to one of my comments, suggested that I ...
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How can we resolve the current drama without causing any more harm to vulnerable groups?
Context: I am a non-binary user who uses singular they as my chosen pronoun. I'm also a relatively new user who just started paying attention to meta right when the situation over the sudden firing of ...
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