Timeline for At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
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| Jun 12, 2023 at 13:42 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | A line in the sand is never the whole definition of “acceptable” vs “unacceptable”, but it can be a very useful part of negotiating a relationship. Laying down a red line isn’t saying “everything up to there is OK”, nor is it saying “until you reach there, I’ll do nothing”. It’s saying explicitly: here is point which would be 100% unacceptable, and if you go there, I will be willing to walk away from the relationship and burn the bridges. (And implicitly: if you approach that point, I’ll be increasingly, unhappy, and will negotiate with whatever intermediate options are available.) | |
| Jun 11, 2023 at 11:37 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | Point taken. At the very last, people are thinking and talking about the idea, rather than just feeling grumpy in private about things SE does | |
| Jun 11, 2023 at 8:38 | comment | added | Darsh Ranjan | To elaborate a bit more: I think that if we draw that line, every time SE makes a questionable decision (which seems likely to keep happening), we'll have to ask two questions: (1) did it cross our line, and (2) was our line drawn correctly, which means having the line at all isn't really that useful. I would think the correct path is just not to subject ourselves to that entity that makes those questionable decisions in the first place. | |
| Jun 11, 2023 at 8:14 | comment | added | Darsh Ranjan | I guess I'm saying that it's not possible to predefine that sufficient condition in any reasonable way. | |
| Jun 11, 2023 at 8:09 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | It would not look good for SE, I meant. And optics are not about causation. It doesn't matter if there is an actual causal relationship, people will suspect there is one. And I don't mean a sharp line, a threshold; I mean a condition sufficient to clearly indicate it's time to go. | |
| Jun 11, 2023 at 8:02 | history | answered | Darsh Ranjan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |