The instances in that repo work well, but it sounds tricky to make it work with a redirector extension since every SE community requires adding a suburl to it. But I'll try to make it work and post my config here.
If the previous survey results show your platform as discriminatory (or at least not welcoming) towards certain marginalized groups, just leave out those identifiers in your next survey...
Nevermind addressing those social issues, and actually creating an environment that would attract those people to be a part of your community.
The company running the most important resource for people working in tech consistently went against the wishes and needs of the community actually providing useful knowledge for each other.
This is not just about the reversal of Stack Overflow Inc's decision against AI generated content on the platform and the recent promotion of their own new AI based tools. This is about the central resource for sharing knowledge about so many things - far more than code or software - being in private hands. No one should be surprised about their decisions, their short-term bottom line will always be more important.
The moderators and contributors organizing themselves against the corporation they work for - even if they do so unpaid - is a huge step. And it is not just happening with #StackOverflow
I once found a Github #FOSS project that had built an almost complete #Stackoverflow alternative. Unfortunately couldn't find it later. It would be a great app to offer federation support. Your idea is good, and it can be generalized as a kind of themed PubSub fedi service.
Stack exchange moderator strike: moderators are no longer allowed to remove AI-generated answers on the basis of being AI-generated, outside of exceedingly narrow circumstances. https://openletter.mousetail.nl/
🪧 Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
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"Stack Overflow has once again ignored the needs and established consensus of its community, instead focusing on business pivots at the expense of its own Community Managers, with many community requests for improved tooling and improving the user experience being left on the back burner."
The volunteer "strike" in response to a policy change permitting ML-written answers made me wonder about ML moderation.
The site already is heavily gamified. Human moderators get Internet points for well-actually-ing, telling question askers they asked their question incorrectly, and prematurely shutting down learning journeys. Could ML trained on this behavior put moderator trolls out of a volunteer job? 🤪
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.
Does anyone know if there are any #slack groups or something of the kind for #aws ? Where do you go for help when the AWS documentation doesn’t have the answer? (Which in my experience is VERY often)
@udondan thanks for the tip! I joined repost a few days ago and I think I will give it a try. I use #StackOverflow very often but never asked a question. In my head, by not being a sort of “chat” it feels less personal and like it takes longer to get an answer. I have no proof whatsoever! It is just my bias against it but I should definitely try. Thanks for the nice options!
Useful reminder that technical skills are just as equally important as the #softSkills.
I'm guilty of focusing mostly on the #coding side of things in the previous years, but now I'm really trying to be business/marketing oriented in each project I do.
#Programming doesn't happen in a vacuum, but we need to be always mindful of the business goals we want to achieve, and be opened for communication and collaboration.
Step 1: Everyone uses #StackOverflow to collect knowledge about how to do things with code
Step 2: Use #LLM to create a bot that answers stuff based on this data
Step 3: StackOverflow usage declines (already down 14%).
Step 4: If StackOverflow closes, LLM do not have new data for new frameworks to learn answers to common questions from.
I'm not ok with this because I gave my answers on StackOverflow under a Creative Commons license to help as many folks as possible—I wasn't compensated for that labor except through Stack Overflow building and maintaining a nice effective repository for knowledge.
Today, "helping as many coders as possible" means giving my Q&A contributions to folks training LLMs. Stack Overflow charging for that feels like rent seeking.
If there was a way for me to mark my answers as "OK for LLM training", I'd do that—for example, re-release my contribution under Public Domain (i.e., "CC0" instead of the Creative Commons with Attribution and Sharealike license that Stack Overflow contributions default to).
I don't expect this to be controversial. I can see folks upset that LLMs are trained on your open-source code (I personally have released all my open source software into the public domain, but I'm incredibly privileged to not need funding from open source). But Q&A content seems different—the intention was to provide uncompensated help to the person asking the question and future visitors.
Nice - now #StackOverflow, which almost assuredly derives the bulk of it's traffic from Google #Search, wants to take the #code YOU gave it for free...
Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers (meta.stackexchange.com)
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.