Timeline for What does the public really need from us?
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| Feb 5 at 17:06 | comment | added | starball Mod | @Starship if you look at it from space, sure. | |
| Feb 5 at 14:11 | comment | added | Starship | @starball Its a cliff. See this graph | |
| Feb 5 at 3:27 | comment | added | starball Mod | @Starship I wouldn't call it a cliff. gradual, steady decline/descent, sure. | |
| Feb 4 at 22:24 | comment | added | Starship | @Slate Honestly, Stack Exchange is mostly destroyed. I'm sure this isn't news to you, but SE and particularly SO has been falling off a cliff activity and visits wise. It kind of is failing. The issue is that pushing for a better future only works if all that pushing does something. There's little point in pushing a wall that doesn't move and ignores your pushes. | |
| Feb 4 at 21:36 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | Always destroying - destroyeder and destroyeder - but never destroyed; we must continue to push for a future that works better for everyone. It's as simple as that, in the end. | |
| Feb 4 at 21:27 | comment | added | Starship | @Slate Other than telling whoever made that decision to reverse it (which I have to imagine you can’t really do), no there’s sadly nothing you specifically can do. And I really do appreciate that you ask these questions. I do believe, of course, that not destroying the site is an obvious requirement to give the public what it needs that. You (you as in you the company, not as in you Slate) are currently destroying the site. | |
| Feb 4 at 21:11 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | @Starship what do you actually want me to do? do you mean to imply I just shouldn't be asking questions like these at all... spend my time elsewhere? | |
| Feb 4 at 20:44 | comment | added | Starship | @Slate I'd say the public needs you to not totally destroy the site, for a start | |
| Jan 31 at 18:06 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | @HolyBlackCat What do you think I should poll? | |
| Jan 31 at 13:55 | comment | added | HolyBlackCat | If you want real answers, show a poll to all users (or some fraction of them). Reponses on meta are biased. | |
| Jan 31 at 13:04 | answer | added | Rand al'Thor | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 28 at 18:48 | answer | added | Mithical | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jan 28 at 17:49 | comment | added | zcoop98 | @Lundin That rolls right back around to the discussion/ complaints of whether the open-ended discussions are useful in the first place in light of past discussion and other specific tasks on the backlog. I think there's clear and evident value in the community expressing its earnest thoughts, and in the company asking for it, even if "nothing" comes from them. The moment that dialogue stops is the moment meta truly dies, in my opinion, if you forgive my melodramatic expression. | |
| Jan 28 at 17:26 | answer | added | SpevacusStaffMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 28 at 13:51 | answer | added | Lundin | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 28 at 13:01 | comment | added | Lundin | "This open-endedness is purposeful." For personal amusement or what? Since the company doesn't act on well-phrased and direct feature requests with major community consensus behind them, I don't see the company acting or anything that came up from various pointless, subjective mind games on meta. | |
| Jan 28 at 0:38 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | @JourneymanGeek nailed it. Open-endedness definitely can be aimless. This open-endedness is purposeful. I want to see what direction people take it, and why. Otherwise, I couldn't really take the time to understand how people think. I'd only learn what they think, and a limited view into it at that. | |
| Jan 28 at 0:34 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | Sometimes that interpretation is telling. To me, the differing interpretations of 'community', or 'we' or 'the public' is both interesting, and a potential blocker to moving in various interpretations of 'a better direction'. How people interpret things is load bearing to these conversations.. | |
| Jan 27 at 7:32 | comment | added | Lundin | @Slate Well, every single person who've answered so far seems to have made their personal interpretation of "we"... Making this whole Q&A incoherent and not very constructive at all. | |
| Jan 24 at 18:10 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | @Lundin Of those, the only interpretation I'd object to is "us" meaning the employees of Stack Exchange exclusively. That is the only meaning I think would lead to answers I am definitely not pursuing as a part of this question. Yes, it is broad - but useful despite it. (Or at least I'm finding it to be so.) | |
| Jan 24 at 17:38 | answer | added | Rubén | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 24 at 15:30 | answer | added | user152859 | timeline score: -4 | |
| Jan 24 at 10:08 | comment | added | Lundin | @slate The origin of the meme is Monty Python's The Fish Slapping Dance. | |
| Jan 24 at 10:03 | comment | added | Lundin | It is indeed too broad and answers are very different depending on if "us" is SO the company, or the meta.se regulars, or SE network veteran users overall, or the whole user base of the whole SE network. | |
| Jan 23 at 21:48 | answer | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 23 at 20:52 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | @Peilonrayz Granted. | |
| Jan 23 at 20:46 | comment | added | Peilonrayz | For the servers to stay on. | |
| Jan 23 at 3:51 | answer | added | user400654 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 23 at 2:18 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 23 at 1:05 | answer | added | bobble | timeline score: 59 | |
| Jan 22 at 23:45 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jan 22 at 23:30 | comment | added | security_paranoid | Is the trout at least a freshwater trout? | |
| Jan 22 at 23:26 | answer | added | security_paranoid | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jan 22 at 21:14 | answer | added | Braiam | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 22 at 21:05 | answer | added | dan1st | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jan 22 at 20:49 | answer | added | starballMod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 22 at 20:40 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | @Anerdw Sadly, credit must go where it is due. It is stolen from Wikipedia, and IRC before them ;) | |
| Jan 22 at 20:39 | comment | added | Anerdw | Is "Slate's Wet Trout" going to become one of The Many Memes of Meta? | |
| Jan 22 at 20:37 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | As with the last question, I sent this post draft to a small handful of community members in advance of posting it here, with an open invitation to start thinking in advance. I chose a somewhat random assortment of people who provided interesting answers I felt were well-considered. I could not pick everyone, to keep the group smaller. As before, there was no obligation to write anything, and I do not know when - or if - they will post. My hope is that it helps us start off on the right foot, as it certainly did with the last post. | |
| Jan 22 at 20:35 | history | asked | SlateStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |