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    Dear MSE folks: we can't really whine about the company not announcing things on MSE and then just immediately downvote if they do. All this post is saying is that Prashanth made a presentation. Hell, it even seems to be saying that this time, instead of pushing AI, he was pushing non-AI. Surely that's a step in the right direction? In any case, this post itself just mentions the fact that a presentation was made. Even if the downvotes are supposed to indicate disagreement with something mentioned in the presentations, that is pointless without explaining what you disagree with. Commented Jul 10 at 15:12
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    @terdon Well people can't downvote the blog post, so what do you propose? Voting is feedback whether it's explained or not. It's great that you view the post as somewhat positive, obviously the folks that downvoted disagreed. It's unfair to categorize community criticism of the company's lack of communication as whining. Yes, I was happy to see more announcements and more communication from the company. No, I will not be afraid that downvoting a post will make them stop communicating and I'm done wasting my time writing up constructive feedback that is always ignored. Commented Jul 10 at 15:53
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    @ColleenV I didn't categorize the voting as whining, I was referring to how often we (myself very much included, which is why I felt I could refer to it as whining) complain—with good reason—that the company ignores meta, but then when a hapless employee actually takes the time to post a simply informative message, they get downvoted. Since this post is just "a thing happened", I don't see the point of downvoting as a way of disagreeing with some point that was made inside one of the presentations. Commented Jul 10 at 15:58
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    literally everything is either negative or inconsequential. There's still no movement on actual problems facing the network. Commented Jul 10 at 16:13
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    We're literally just rearranging chairs while selling out to the competition. Commented Jul 10 at 16:33
  • @terdon I understood what you were referring to as whining and I objected to characterizing it that way. This isn't a hapless employee posting something out of the goodness of their heart. Rosie was directed to post this and I'm sure they understand that the votes aren't personal. Insisting that we construe votes as relating only to the literal content of the post and not what it is actually trying to communicate is silly. Many of us wish the community/company relationship was more positive, but wishing doesn't make it so and the company's choices haven't been helping lately. Commented Jul 10 at 17:09
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    Related: 2024 WeAreDevelopers Event Summary Commented Jul 11 at 0:30