Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

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Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

Post by Ognistysztorm » Mon Jun 05, 2023 9:42 am

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As of today, June 5th, 2023, a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network are initiating a general moderation strike. This strike is in protest of recent and upcoming changes to policy and the platform that are being performed by Stack Exchange, Inc.1 We have posted an open letter addressed to Stack Exchange, Inc. The letter details which actions are being avoided, the main concerns of the signees, and the concrete actions that Stack Exchange, Inc. needs to take to begin to resolve the situation. Striking community members will refrain from moderating and curating content, including casting flags, and critical community-driven anti-spam and quality control infrastructure will be shut down.

However, the letter itself cannot contain all of our concerns, and we felt it was important to share some of the background and details that were not included in the letter in the interests of brevity. We also wanted to touch upon several points at the same time that are related to Stack Exchange, Inc.’s recent behavior.

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Re: Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

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Re: Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

Post by ericbarbour » Tue Aug 29, 2023 10:35 pm

As usual this was barely noticed outside Stack Overflow. Only a few bloggers mentioned it.

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/20 ... e-network/
https://jlericson.com/2023/06/07/strike_progress.html
The first result is a paid sponsorship that I assumed was just on "stack overflow X" queries. But a few more searches prove that Stack Overflow hasn't paid for all search results. (I'm using incognito windows, by the way, because Google likes to personalize results.
And THAT is another reason why Google top results can't be trusted.

Only news report I can find: this Vice article. Anyone remember Philippe Beaudette? One of the SLIMIEST people ever employed by the WMF....
Stack Overflow’s Vice President of Community, Philippe Beaudette, told Motherboard in a statement that, “A small number of moderators (11%) across the Stack Overflow network have stopped engaging in several activities, including moderating content. The primary reason for this action is dissatisfaction with our position on detection tools regarding AI-generated content. Stack Overflow ran an analysis and the ChatGPT detection tools that moderators were previously using have an alarmingly high rate of false positives.” The moderators write in their post that they were aware of the problems with the detection tool.

“We stand by our decision to require that moderators stop using the tools previously used,” Beaudette continued. “We are confident that we will find a path forward. We regret that actions have progressed to this point, and the Community Management team is evaluating the current situation as we work hard to stabilize things in the short term.”
From the book wiki:
Philippe Beaudette was "Head of Reader Relations" (whatever that meant) for the Wikimedia Foundation from 2009 until 2016. His duties included many things that were formerly handled by Cary Bass. Very little is known about Beaudette's personal, professional or academic histories. He has been deleting web sites that mentioned his activities.
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