People tend to value free speech more than self-determination. Nobody would like to get suspended or banned in a witch-hunt just for asking for some clarification, for committing some silly mistake or even for not saying something. There are a lot of gray areas and uncertainties. Many people think that the new CoC is a minefield. This would mean that the meta simply would lose most of its purpose of even existing. Many people think that SE are simply ignoring any input or feedback from people on meta.
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Many people see SE as an entity that keeps telling lies to the users. As if we are an obsolete product that they need to get rid of or as if our whole role now is to just click the ads that they push to us. Some people think that SE seems to not care anymore about the community. Most of the reasons why people won't calm down are:
#Storm in a teacup title update
Please judge the CoC update on its own merits, rather than on the context.
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The CoC can be bad while the demodding is fair, or vice versa. That issue, although related to the CoC update, is distinct from the handling of the demodding. Yes, there are decisions by Stack Exchange that many are unhappy about, in particular about the handling and communication surrounding the demodding of a moderator whose work many users were happy with.
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Whether this is coerced speech or not and whether this is good or bad, let's not make a storm in a teacup out of this update. Highly upvoted posts are speaking of coerced speech and users resigning.Īpart from the fact that nobody is coerced into participating in Stack Exchange and that for that reason alone there is no coerced speech, apart from the soft coercion that is universal in society, can we please separate the Code of Conduct update from the way this has been handled? An awful lot has been written about it already. With the firing of community managers, I no longer believe this is a storm in a teacup.ĭear friends across the Stack Exchange network.Ĭan we please calm down a bit about the Code of Conduct update?Īs of, the Code of Conduct Update had 424 upvotes and 2229 downvotes.