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Event: "Community is the Future of AI" blog post

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{
  "date_str": "2023-06-20",
  "title": "\"Community is the Future of AI\" blog post",
  "slug": "https-meta-stackexchange-com-questions-388401-new-blog-post-from-our-ceo-prashanth-community-is-the-future-of-ai",
  "summary": "CEO posts an announcement which leads to lots of speculations",
  "body": "<p>Stack Overflow Prashanth Chandrasekar posted his quarterly announcement on the company blog, where he was waxing enthusiastic about artificial intelligence and its promises for the company.</p><p>The post was not well received by the community, and led to many speculations about a change of direction for the company.</p>",
  "classes": [
    "tag-staff"
  ],
  "linkedEvent": "#general-moderation-strike-starts",
  "links": [
    {
      "text": "MSE post",
      "url": "https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/388401/new-blog-post-from-our-ceo-prashanth-community-is-the-future-of-ai"
    },
    {
      "text": "Blog post",
      "url": "https://stackoverflow.blog/?p=21973"
    }
  ]
}

Event: Stack Overflow required moderators to stop moderating AI-generated content

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{
  "date_str": "2023-05-29",
  "title": "Stack Overflow required moderators to stop moderating AI-generated content",
  "slug": "stack-overflow-required-moderators-to-stop-moderating-ai-generated-content",
  "type": "policy ai community",
  "summary": "The company basically reversed the earlier policy, causing uproar within the community",
  "body": "<p>ChatGPT was made available in November 2022, and quickly became extremely popular. One of the things it was used for was to quickly post machine-generated answers to questions on Stack Overflow. Because of quality and scalability issues, the community had banned AI-generated content, and the moderators had been encouraged to issue suspensions by the Community Managers (Stack Overflow employees who liaise with the community in general and the moderators in particular.</p><p>One of the complications was that moderators had been given one instruction in private, which they were not allowed to share or discuss outside the moderator community. Another was that this policy was rolled out in violation of existing processes for creating new instructions for moderators.</p>",
  "linkedEvent": "#general-moderation-strike-starts",
  "links": [
    {
      "text": "MSE post",
      "url": "https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389582/what-is-the-network-policy-regarding-ai-generated-content"
    }
  ]
}

Tim Post leaves Stack Exchange

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{
  "date_str": "2020-11-13",
  "title": "Tim Post leaves Stack Exchange",
  "slug": "tim-post-leaves-stack-exchange",
  "type": "resignation",
  "body": "<blockquote><p>I owe all of you so much.&nbsp;<em><strong>All</strong></em>&nbsp;of you.</p>\n<p>As I read all of the wonderful things that folks are saying about me, I can't help but think of the people that led me to those qualities; almost all of those folks are people that I encountered through being here. I didn't arrive as the adult in the room who always seemed to have the right advice to give, all of you taught me how to be that person as I learned from every interaction that we had.</p>\n<p>You made this place that, for all my faults, ambitions, hopes and successes that were&nbsp;<em>usually</em>&nbsp;more colossal than my failures, has been my home for over a decade. And it will continue to be. But what I've brought back to this place we've made pales in comparison to what I've taken from it.</p>\n</blockquote>",
  "classes": [
    "tag-staff"
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "text": "Twitter",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/tinkertim/status/1326989993928237057"
    },
    {
      "text": "MSE",
      "url": "https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/356603/a-big-thank-you-tim-post"
    }
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BoltClock and Bhargav Rao resign

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{
  "date_str": "2021-11-23",
  "title": "BoltClock and Bhargav Rao resign",
  "slug": "boltclock-and-bhargav-rao-resign",
  "type": "moderators resignation",
  "summary": "two Stack Overflow moderators resign",
  "body": "<blockquote><p>On November 22nd and 23rd, 2021 we celebrated two big anniversaries - a 10 year moderator tenure for BoltClock on the 23rd and a 5 year tenure for Bhargav Rao. In their ways, these two have done an immense service to this site and I'm honored they've spent so much time helping us out and responding to the needs of Stack Overflow.</p>\n<p>Considering this, I'm sad to announce that&nbsp;<strong>they're both stepping down as moderators.</strong>&nbsp;While they won't have diamonds as of later today, they've both assured me that they won't completely disappear on us all, so we hope to see them around in some capacity - but I certainly wish them well and some deserved time off from SO.</p>\n</blockquote>",
  "classes": [
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  "links": [
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      "text": "MSE",
      "url": "https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/413240/two-b-or-not-two-b-farewell-boltclock-and-bhargav"
    }
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New moderator agreement

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{
  "date_str": "2020-07-08",
  "title": "New moderator agreement",
  "slug": "new-moderator-agreement",
  "type": "moderators",
  "body": "<blockquote>Today, we&rsquo;re announcing that the new moderator agreement is live and the existing moderators are being asked to accept it. This has been a great collaboration to get from a draft in November 2019 to the final agreement in July 2020. It&rsquo;s gone through several phases of review internally, including with the Community Leadership Team, the Community Management Team, our Legal department, and we have had the assistance of our Public Platform team to build in some tooling to support a sixty-day transition period between the old and new agreements.</blockquote>",
  "classes": [
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  "links": [
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      "text": "MSE",
      "url": "https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350544/the-new-moderator-agreement-is-now-live-for-moderators-to-accept-across-the-netw"
    },
    {
      "text": "Moderator agreement",
      "url": "https://meta.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement/versions/2"
    }
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Event: Teresa Dietrich quit

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{
  "date_str": "2023-05-01",
  "title": "Teresa Dietrich left Stack Overflow",
  "slug": "teresa-dietrich-left-stack-overflow",
  "type": "staff resignation",
  "summary": "Chief Product Officer, formerly also Chief Technology Officer",
  "body": "<p>&gt;&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #232629; font-family: -apple-system, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI Adjusted', 'Segoe UI', 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">Teresa&rsquo;s last day with the company was Friday, April 21st. In the 3+ years that she was here, Teresa had a huge impact on the company and the website. In addition to the Product team, Teresa had the Community team under her purview, and for more than half of her tenure she also acted as Chief Technology Officer.</span></p>",
  "classes": [
    "tag-staff",
    "tag-resignation"
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  "links": [
    {
      "text": "MSE post",
      "url": "https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/388800/announcement-teresa-dietrich-leaves-stack"
    }
  ]
},

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