Questions tagged [community]
For questions about fostering a sense of community amongst users of Stack Exchange sites
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I am Ash, Staff Product Manager, and this is how I work
I’m Ash Zade, a Staff Product Manager, and I have been at Stack for a little over three years, but I have been a Stack user for over a decade. I started my career at Stack on the SaaS side as a ...
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Introduce “Knowledge Trails” linking questions that represent progressive learning steps
Often, several questions form a natural learning sequence, for instance:
“What is entropy?”
“How is entropy defined in statistical mechanics?”
“Why does entropy increase in isolated systems?”
Each ...
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I am Jaidiac, Director of Engineering, Public Platform, and this is how I work
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Hi! I’m the director of engineering, public platform at Stack. I’ve been here for about a year and a half. I currently manage two teams of engineers and our Architecture Guild and ...
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Sub-Communities Survey Announcement
Since announcing our new mission to become the world’s most vital resource for technologists, we are always looking for new community engagement opportunities that provide members with the spaces and ...
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Why do people post comments that contribute nothing of value, and why are the comments allowed to remain? [closed]
I often see comments that criticize either the OP or another comment, and doesn't actually contribute anything to the post. Why are these comments posted?
Also why does Stack Overflow remove ...
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Why is there the ability to flag an answer for deletion if the answer has proved useful?
I'm curious as to the purpose of the function for answers to be 'flagged for deletion' when they have been upvoted?
Surely, answers that are receiving votes are useful and fulfill the purpose of ...
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How can we get new users to read the guidelines before posting?
I've noticed a lot of new users jump straight into posting without seeming to check the site guidelines--like asking off-topic questions or formatting posts in ways that don’t fit the Stack Exchange ...
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2024 Community-a-thon Recap
This past October, we hosted our fifth annual Community-a-thon, a special time when our team dives deep into the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange communities to experience (again) what it’s like to ...
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Upgrade plans for MathJax v3/v4
While this is not the way I wanted to announce this, it seems the cat is out of the bag. But for those who haven't noticed, as part of our Community Asks Sprint, I spent the week investigating how we ...
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Options when locking an official discussion post that keep communication avenues open
We're all struggling with communication and community stress. Trust is low and people are concerned. There are lots of changes occurring and it's not always easy to follow along or keep up-to-date. ...
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Please bring back the Community Roadmap posts
When I began work on the now defunct Community Leadership Team in early 2020, one of our early initiatives was to share details on the work being done for the community from both Community and ...
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Lack of Company follow-through / Company failure to meet expectations
Update 2024-09-13
On 2024-Jul-12, Philippe promised a response to the community after following up with Legal:
On 2024-Jul-20, Philippe updated that he was still awaiting an update:
Since then, ...
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What we really need to know to understand your community
Obviously, being there and seeing for myself is ideal, but with a network as big as ours, that’s not always possible. So please tell me: what’s one thing that you think it's critical to know, in ...
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Community-a-thon 2023 kicks off on October 13th
TL;DR:
Our fourth Community-a-thon will kick off on October 13, 2023 and continue until October 18th, 2023.
This is an annual event where staff at Stack Overflow are encouraged to participate on the ...
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Community Health Dashboards
This is based on a recent Meta Software Engineering question.
It would be interesting to expose, to the community, information about community health. The Meta Software Engineering question asked ...
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What do you feel like is still missing to end the strike?
The negotiations have ended and the Moderation strike: Results of negotiations post has been received overwhelmingly positively (at the time of writing this post +359/-3).
That being said, it seems ...
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What is "Community" in the Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow context?
I've been reading a bunch of messages from assorted staff. Some internal, such as on Meta, some in the company blog and other annoncements, and some on media releases. Most from the CEO, or C-level ...
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Do basically all ~1500 people on strike need to separately enter into "mandatory arbitration" after 90 days?
Currently there is an ongoing strike (Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers) which has led to (as at the time of writing)
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Would the striking moderators welcome a user strike? Should we, the users, go on strike?
As we know, there is a call for a strike from the moderators on the entire network. I support the moderators.
It occurred to me, perhaps a little late, that my participating on the site as usual — ...
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Price of AI floodgates inaction
I was going to post this as an answer (among many) under @Philippe's Statement from SO: June 5, 2023 Moderator Action, but that's currently locked, apparently due to concerns about the title, out of ...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
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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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How is SE justifying the new AI policy?
Yes, the new AI policy is bad. However, on top of that, I am not convinced the company has any right1 to try to impose it. The first thing claimed in the Tour page of all sites is (emphasis mine):
$...
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Why ask for questions and concerns if you aren't going to address them?
On May 3rd, staff posted an announcement on the Software Engineering Meta saying that additional ad space would be added to Software Engineering in the next week and to raise and questions or concerns....
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Maybe we need a 'generic' account for some staff activities
Every year, we end up needing to get community managers to get someone to change the selected answer for this post. If I understand correctly, this needs a bit of a special tool or developer time. We ...
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What about the introduction of a new feature which raises the requirement for moderators to close questions from experienced users? [closed]
There were already similar questions back here in 2011 here in 2009 respectively. However, this issue must be raised again in slightly different manner because the SO platform functionality has ...
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