How's the Stack Overflow strike going?

Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by minitech on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:11AM (#36253945)

… as a result of two votes to close from members of the community, which is not an example of “shut down by a mod” (GP) or how “Stack Overflow has been absolutely destroyed by the moderators” (GGP). Closing questions isn’t really a primary purpose of elected moderators to begin with, because it doesn’t need more privileges than the rep-based privilege system already grants.

Meanwhile, the spam/abuse deletion, removal of illegitimate votes, conflict resolution, and so on that having mods is actually valuable for happen behind the scenes.

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Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by dvt on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:20AM (#36254004)

I understand that you're a SO moderator and feel the need to defend the site, but I'm not the only one levying this criticism. I'd suggest looking inwardly to see if you can change the culture of the moderation, and not lashing out towards me.

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Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by minitech on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:24AM (#36254039)

Is pointing out that you’re not supporting your point with the correct evidence lashing out? For what it’s worth, I don’t feel the need to defend the site, and think it does a pretty terrible job of delivering useful questions and correct answers most of the time – just for pretty much the opposite reasons.

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Re:How's the Stack Overflow strike going? by fzeroracer on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:25AM (#36254045)

So rather than address the fact that you were wrong, you chose to change your argument entirely, attack the person's character and then lash out at them?

You have access to the moderator queue and have been according to your history a person with relatively influential ability. Why don't you work towards changing the culture yourself?

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