I think this answer is uncharitable. Not everyone complaining now is a chronic complainer. Lots of people who were previously pretty satisfied with SE are unhappy now. — TRiGDec 9 '19 at 12:24
@ypercubeᵀᴹ I do agree that it's easy to think a vocal group on meta is "the community". The group may very well be a minority.
Same goes for green/lgbtq/whatever movements. I'm not sure the people you seem to hear a lot are representing the populace. At least around me I don't see many people care, but that may be biased as well since "people around me" is a small sample group as well
What I mean to say is that depending on where you stand or what your environment is, it's easy to think groups of like minded people are bigger than they really are
Yes, I think few people travel enough to be able to claim they know what the public opinion really is on some or other matter. Most of us are left to choose who to believe when hearing such claims. That's where independent press should shine the most, but how much of press is really independent, or otherwise unbiased, now?
> In the last few months that tiny group has turned MSE into a toxic echo chamber.
> That group, by its antics on MSE, has probably dispelled any remaining belief among SE staff that interacting with MSE can be useful. So, yes, the continued complaints by that group will indeed be ignored.
So the claim is that this group (small or big) is the sole to blame for the "toxic" environment in Meta the last months. SE management contributed nothing to the toxicity.
