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Comments on How does Codidact avoid repeating Stack Exchange's mistakes?

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How does Codidact avoid repeating Stack Exchange's mistakes?

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I received an important question in private email, and I'm bringing it here so we can improve on the answer I sent. This won't be the last time we get this question; let's develop a clear, effective response.

The question, slightly paraphrased, was:

How will you prevent Codidact from repeating the problems that got Stack Exchange (SE) into its current state? What, in your opinion, caused SE's problems, and how are you avoiding them?

To elaborate a bit, those problems include:

  • SE management neglecting, ignoring, and then changing things out from under the communities they host and the volunteers who support them (e.g. license changes, policy changes), apparently for financial reasons

  • Lack of transparency and accountability in company actions that affect communities

  • Community turmoil caused by company actions that seem mysterious and harmful, and community fragmentation and decline as some leave, others stay, some change their behavior, and so on

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Richard Branson once said:

Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients

I'd like to paraphrase that in terms of Codidact.

Take care of your core community, your moderators, your 0.015%, they will take care of your users.

Stack Overflow forgot the core community in order to please their clients and new users. That hurt them. Remembering that the community is your strength and not your weakness would be the best way to not get into similar mistakes.

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Incnis Mrsi‭ wrote over 3 years ago

How should an average moderator have a fabulously high value for the project? OK, here is not as much a content project as StackExch and a moderator incarnates St. Community, but why can’t a moderator be replaced?