Timeline for Stack Exchange moderation strike
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| Jun 17, 2023 at 1:31 | comment | added | Sidharth Ghoshal | I have Signed! :) | |
| Jun 15, 2023 at 13:54 | answer | added | Gottfried Helms | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 2:39 | history | edited | David RobertsMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2023 at 14:10 | answer | added | Neil Strickland | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 12:47 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | I've signed.... | |
| Jun 6, 2023 at 17:25 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | This post by the mod team at Physics SE is an example of what it might mean to assert independence from SE oversight/control: physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14438/… | |
| Jun 6, 2023 at 15:59 | comment | added | ziggurism | The linked answer by Tim Campion didn't call for leaving the StackExchange network, go our own way. Instead it suggested just to assert independence by writing a separate CoC and declaring it, not the SE CoC, to hold on MO. And to make a declaration about whether SE imposed mod firings. In the current context, we may also want to impose different rules about AI generated answers than SE. Those would be good steps to take, even if the more drastic step of leaving the network isn't necessarily going to happen. | |
| Jun 6, 2023 at 15:22 | comment | added | Ben Webster Mod | @YoavKallus That was what I understood the phrase to mean, but I agree that's not the only meaning it could have. Of course, we (both the moderators and high-rep users) are going to use our own judgement about moderation, which is a form of asserting our independence. But some things about the underlying function of the site, we cannot change without leaving the StackExchange network. | |
| Jun 6, 2023 at 15:17 | history | edited | Ben WebsterMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2023 at 15:17 | comment | added | Yoav Kallus | @BenWebster Does "asserting [MO's] independence" necessarily mean going our own way? Are MO's moderators bound by SE's policy decisions, or can MO assert independence with regard to policy while staying on the network? | |
| Jun 6, 2023 at 14:44 | comment | added | Ben Webster Mod | @SamHopkins I understand the impulse, but I do want you to think hard about the word "simply" there. It will not be simple at all. I don't think we're close to the point where we would decide to go our own way, but obviously, it remains a possibility should things really go downhill. | |
| Jun 6, 2023 at 14:34 | comment | added | Ben Webster Mod | @Carl-FredrikNybergBrodda I mean there are policy changes coming down the road which I believe we aren't supposed to speak about publicly yet, and more generally there's quite a bit of frustration with SE leadership making public statements which don't really match what moderators have experienced or what they've told us. See, for example, here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389824/… | |
| Jun 6, 2023 at 11:50 | comment | added | Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda | “…and emblematically, some policy changes our understanding is that we shouldn't speak about publicly.” Sorry, I’m not quite parsing this - do you mean there are policy changes you should not speak about publicly (this is what I suspect you mean), or that the policy change is that you shouldn’t speak publicly about policy changes in general? | |
| Jun 6, 2023 at 1:32 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | An inability to crack down on AI-generated nonsense would ruin MO, and I would second @ziggurism in suggesting that, if this policy from the higher ups at StackExchange is not reversed, MO should simply assert its independence. | |
| Jun 5, 2023 at 16:37 | comment | added | ziggurism | in this thread from a few years ago meta.mathoverflow.net/q/4368/19860, the answer by Tim Campion suggests that MO should take some steps to assert its independence from SE. this seems like a good time to think more about such options | |
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| Jun 5, 2023 at 15:18 | answer | added | David RobertsMod | timeline score: 59 | |
| Jun 5, 2023 at 14:49 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | Let me note that "a group of moderators" sits, at time of commenting, at 82, together with a number of very high-profile former moderators (eg Shog9, who has 439k rep on the network-wide meta.SE, some may remember from days past). It also includes the people who run certain key pieces of software that helps keep the place tidy, and the software itself. | |
| Jun 5, 2023 at 14:45 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | I've signed too. | |
| Jun 5, 2023 at 14:42 | history | edited | Asaf KaragilaMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2023 at 14:27 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I have signed the letter. | |
| Jun 5, 2023 at 14:25 | history | asked | Ben WebsterMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |