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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
7:14 AM
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Q: Stack Exchange is failing its community

Journeyman GeekI guess this is very much an intervention. There's a few policies in the pipeline - here's one, and there's another one that's not been officially announced that a good many moderators are opposed to. I'll update when (or if) it goes through, but it's not great. Tied in with the new 'push' to AI ...

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I'd note that moderators and curators are considering a strike in response to some of these issues. — Mithical yesterday
 
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
3:27 PM
in Data Explorer (SEDE) on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 hour ago, by M--
@Martin here's a statement: https://gist.github.com/superplane39/a586196f55885c649f252a7f634350cf
> We, the undersigned, are moderators and curators of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network. Effective immediately, we are enacting a general moderation strike on Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, in protest of recent and upcoming changes to policy and the platform that are being forced upon us by Stack Overflow, Inc.
> Until this matter is resolved satisfactorily, we will be pausing activities including, but not limited to:
> - Raising and handling flags.
- Running SmokeDetector, the anti-spam bot.
- Closing or voting to close posts.
- Deleting or voting to delete posts.
- Reviewing tasks in the various review queues.
- Running various other bots designed to assist in moderation, such as detecting plagiarism, low-quality answers, and rude comments.
> We are striking in protest of two specific changes that Stack Overflow, Inc. is forcing onto the community, without discussion and against the concensus of the community. These are announcing that moderators are no longer allowed to issue suspensions for AI-generated content, regardless of community concensus, outside of very narrow circumstances; and announcing that the 15-reputation requirement to cast upvotes, a measure for reducing fraudulent voting and voting by users who are not yet familiar with the model of the site, is being removed entirely, allowing any user of the internet to …
> Until Stack Overflow, Inc. retracts these policy and platform changes to a degree that addresses the concerns of the moderators, and commits to working with the community, we are calling for a general moderation strike, to remind Stack Overflow, Inc. that a network that entirely relies on volunteers for its moderation model cannot then consistently mistreat and malign those same volunteers.
 

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