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True. Worth noting that this is coming up because the volunteers are being mistreated and people were looking for laws that could protect them, and may have found more than they were looking for.

While we're discussing Stack Overflow's legal situation:

- Users have raised $9000 to defend a volunteer moderator from defamation by Stack Overflow employees: https://www.gofundme.com/f/stop-stack-overflow-from-defaming...

- Stack Overflow illegally changed the content license without permission from authors (Creative Commons allows such license changes for adaptations but not collections such as Stack Exchange) and refuse to clarify their legal justification (do they feel they have the right to change to any license they choose?): https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...

- Their general counsel appears to have left the company a little before all of this happened: https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/80154...

FWIW every job I've had in my 7-year career came from connections that stated though Stack Overflow. No one's hiring on the basis of reputation score, but many employers do reach out to users who have repeatedly demonstrated their technical communication and knowledge.

She opted out within the 30 day window, so her options remain open.

Some context, although really this is the culmination of a five year breakdown in community trust and there's way too much background to sum up briefly.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-...

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334575/dear-stack-e...

https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2019/10/05/stack-overflow-fias...

They only did that after they were called out by multiple Senators and international media, so I don't really give them any credit.

At least when you had a micro USB or mini USB cable, you knew it would be compatible with everything of the same form factor.

USB-C's form factor might stick around longer, but its compatibility problems are going to be much worse.

Why is this on the Stack Overflow blog?

When I replied to their survey that I wanted "tech articles written by other developers", I was imagining a platform for Stack Overflow authors to contribute longer-form work -- an idea that's been floated by staff for most of the life of the site! I wasn't expecting random cross-promotional content.

I think you can already natively add alt text to images including GIFs, but need to enable the UI on your account firist: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/picture-descriptio...

because she has 46k Twitter followers and the company fears Twitter above all else

"normies"?

Potentially. The policy still hasn't been finalized, so I'm not ready to assume that it's something she wouldn't have been able to comply with.

> She made it clear talking to a journalist from The Register

I'm not sure what you're referring to: Monica didn't talk to anyone at The Register..? Only Stack Overflow knew that article was coming.

If there was a formal policy in place, Monica would not violate it. If the differences were unresolvable, she would have resigned, but only after looking for a compromise.

Under no circumstances would she have broken with policy and needed to be forcibly removed. We have eight years of character evidence from her, including several posts from Stack Exchange employees over the years commending her reasonableness and contributions. Sara Chipps' actions ignore all of that and assumed the worst.

I agree that it's a tiny minority view, but it's not a straw man when that tiny minority are making the decisions at Stack Overflow.

Really? I imagine that fewer than 1% of Linuxes boxes out there can successfully send email to a public email address.

There are a lot of very toxic moderators on the network.

As far as I recognize, none of them are among the resigned. They'll probably be more prominent now that reasonable kind people like Monica have been removed.

I agree it should have been clarified, but the initial intended audience was meta users who would be familiar. Elected moderators need to accept the https://stackoverflow.com/legal/moderator-agreement agreement before they're giving their privileges, and they have to agree not to disclose any information that they get obtain using their mod access, such as the private discussions between moderators and staff here.

It might not be legally binding, but Stack Overflow could plausibly delete their account as punishment.

Currently, no, because I don't have any legal options where I am currently living, and my own experience and stories like this have pushed me away from black market products.

But I believe that these are a much better product, when manufactured by accountable, regulated, legal companies.

I hope we'll have more safe products available going forward, instead of a ban that helps sustain unsafe black market products.

They're massively more convenient. Dry herb vaporizers require me to reload the device every few hits and carry a supply of dry ground cannabis with me everywhere I go. The wet capsules last for hundreds of hits, and produce less scent both when in use and when inactive.

I've also found good capsule vaporizers to be more reliable than any of the four dry vaporizers I've purchased. But I have personally stopped buying black market vapes after I lost my supplier and the next few I was able to purchase immediately destroyed my lungs... :/

Joel has already killed Stack Overflow beyond repair.

Prashanth is a grave robber trying to find a few valuables to snatch for investors.

They also promised a profile option you could use to opt-out of arbitration... but never actually implemented it.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333388/what-is-the-...

Unemployment rate is an essentially-fraudlent statistic.

Changes in the labour force participation rate are more revealing: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000