As I mentioned in a comment, in my view you were one of the finest mods on this site. For years - since discovering this thing called Meta - I have silently appreciated how well you justify your actions, with clear, solid reasoning. This post is no different. I'm saddened - as I was after read...

Can a system of duress codes be designed for the remaining moderators to signal if, when, and where from any directives are being forced on them? The post that prompted this was from StackOverflow's meta. Specifically, this one: I'm resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator The...

Sorry if this post is duplicated, but I didn´t find a similar one. I just begun to help on moderation tasks on Stack Overflow. On half of the new posts, or relative new users (even in my case), I am commenting regarding minimum requirements for a post. In my case: input sample, expected output s...

Simple question: Did anyone consider the impact on autistics of recent code of conduct changes? From the answers I see on Official FAQ on gender pronouns and Code of Conduct changes it seems like a lot of people are unhappy because they can't follow the grammar rules they learned back in English...

I understand the CoC is new and there are some grey areas, but for people like me it's a benefit to be upfront with our PP. This avoids misgendering and the subsequence damage. I read a few posts where unique individuals were told not to place their PP in the thread and keep it in their bios. I d...

While I'm a fan of "Presume good intent" it seems unusual to see folks whose entire interest here is in how the CoC is enforced - one rep users with no accounts elsewhere. I'm noticing some patterns already We're going to have to deal with a lot of folks thinking they're really clever. There's ...

I'd like to see what Stack Exchange, Inc.'s org chart looks like. Why? I'd like to know how many layers are there between the Community Managers and the leadership we've heard from during the current crisis of trust. Rather than just having a number, e.g. there are two positions connecting the...

I am a member of the network and posting anonymously for my safety. CW: References to and examples of hate speech I don't want to put blame anywhere, but unfortunately due to the huge turmoil created by the recent CoC changes, several right-wing websites have started reporting and thus directed...

It's been just over five years since I joined the Stack Exchange network. I was awarded my fifth Yearling badge, over at Science Fiction & Fantasy, around a week ago. I became interested in the upkeep and moderation of the site not long after. One thing led to another, and I was appointed to mode...

It's been just over five years since I joined the Stack Exchange network. I was awarded my fifth Yearling badge, over at Science Fiction & Fantasy, around a week ago. I became interested in the upkeep and moderation of the site not long after. One thing led to another, and I was appointed to mode...

May we have an occasion to work together again, some day. If not here, when all is through, then I hope elsewhere. Your reasons are clear, and I understand. If I had not quit already, I would quit again now, as my thoughts echo yours near word-for-word. Thanks, sincerely, for all you've done. ...

It's sanding that we are losing another valuable moderator and especially on Spirit Day, which is an LGBT awareness day and second strike on literature now due to the same fire. It's disheartening and I started losing patience now. I might not be so regular on Literature to be specific but I do ...

For those that take strong issue with being told what words they are allowed to use in a given situation, there are two options that come to mind. The first is to opt out of any Q/A that includes a person who has specified their pronouns. The second is to simply leave the community altogether. ...

I have no problem referring to someone with their preferred pronoun. I have worked with folks who are non-binary and, well, we're all just people. We should be civil to each other, and this is why the CoC has generic contexts outlined to cater for uncivil comments etc - such as "be civil" "be po...

Just to be clear, I'm explicitly referring to the "Official FAQ on gender pronouns and Code of Conduct changes". I think disallowing the association bonus is a bad choice. I read and answer across multiple different sections of the site, but I've never participated in the meta because until now t...

How are you going to be handle conscientious objectors? I imagine that for many users of the religious sites like Christianity.SE or Islam.SE complying with this CoC goes against their religious beliefs. Does SE consider that to be the same as being uncomfortable?

This change to the CoC is outrageous! You shall respect others just as you want to be respected, but forcing people into using certain pronouns or anything will make them turn away. There aren't many situations when you need pronouns This change to the CoC is prone to abuse The proportions of t...

What a pile of weaklings the studs and studettes who vomited out this dog's dinner have to be. You'd be composted or Gulag in a week in a real world. Please give each other pink mist sombreros before any attempt at reproduction is made. Thanking you amoebas and sexless slime molds in advance.

Does SE Inc. really care about us? Because it doesn't feel like that. Meta is burning with hatred and heinous speech and SE Inc is nowhere to be seen. Sure, they made a post who apologize for that (among other things) ten days ago. Sure, they are handling flags and removing bad stuff eventuall...

SE is in a crisis of trust. Many members of the StackExchange network have lost faith in the company. Beloved volunteer moderators of many individual sites in the network have stepped down. The company suddenly terminated someone's moderator status several weeks ago. That moderator, M, has re...

Your strength, your courage, your patience, your eloquence, your articulation, and your maturity far surpasses mine and that of many of the people on the entire network. For that, you have my deepest respect. I wish you safe passage wherever you go from here.

Aw, crap. I've spent the last three weeks reading a number of resignation posts across the network, including some from folks I've served alongside as a mod and some from folks with whom I haven't. Most of really hard to read - not just because we're losing valuable voices, but because the stori...

I don't expect to be missed (or for this post to survive). For the record, I'm leaving over SE management's removal of a moderator. A moderator I never knew and never interacted with. But whose reputation appears to have been smeared by an SE manager, from Meta through the chatrooms and all th...

On the left, we believed your apology. We thought you were sincere and wanted to fix this. On the right we realised you were just saying this to pacify us again, and do not care about the community.

It saddens me and breaks my heart in a lot of ways to do so, so I'd like to explain very briefly "why". Can't say much because I'd have to plagiarise George Stocker's resignation notice and he's already verbalised that brilliantly. It's been great being on this site (diamond or not)... I've h...

I wonder how people think about these special pronouns in terms of how much power they seem to be giving people. You're essentially granting your opposition the power of the "knights of ni" by embedding yourself so deeply into this strange pronoun subculture. I always thought the goal of the aver...

Just a suggestion; Future changes to the CoC and FAQ might go over a little better if we know that whoever shaped the previous iteration, causing untold human misery, doesn't have their fingerprints on the new one or come within a mile of it. That would especially apply to anyone directly respons...

Can the community team please allocate emergency moderators to fill in temporarily on the sites that are suffering from lack of moderation? The behaviour is becoming rotten and it's destroying the current active meta community. While people may end up leaving the site, it's not nice for people t...

Can the community team please allocate emergency moderators to fill in temporarily on the sites that are suffering from lack of moderation? The behaviour is becoming rotten and it's destroying the current active meta community. While people may end up leaving the site, it's not nice for people t...

Q16: May I use they/them by default? Yes, but be prepared to make adjustments if so requested. From @Catija (staff) If you use they/them by default, that's fine. If someone requests that you use other pronouns and you immediately continue to use they/them for that person, we may poin...