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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

As of today, "a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network are initiating a general moderation strike." The move is in response partially to the way management at the company treats these volunteer contributors as a commodity, and not the core of the service they offer, and partially in response to the the way management effectively allowed AI-generated responses to be submitted to the service. I use Stack Overflow a lot and would hate to see the service turned into some sort of commercial garbage (I could use Cory Doctorow's phrase, but I won't). The story also teaches us some important lessons about community, which Laura Hilliger draws out for us.

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