Timeline for What should we do to reduce the risk of a Reddit-like crisis?
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| Aug 5, 2015 at 19:28 | comment | added | Anonymous Penguin | Just noticed that we got a podcast reference on this question!: blog.stackexchange.com/2015/08/… | |
| Aug 4, 2015 at 1:59 | comment | added | gnat | interesting case to compare against Reddit crisis could be "Black Weekend" of March 3-4, 2012, when SE meta was flooded by complaints of users discovering loss of rep due to posts deletions. I've seen it "live" and that was quite a backslash, yeah (most of these complaints are deleted and visible only to 10K MSE users). IIRC this crisis was resolved in a matter of days, see Reputation and Historical Archives | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 3:49 | vote | accept | Monica Cellio | ||
| Jul 6, 2015 at 17:51 | comment | added | Andy | A followup to the reddit situation has been posted by their administration team: reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_apologize | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 13:52 | comment | added | MDMarra | @Emrakul why not? The question is about how to prevent a Reddit-like type of backlash. Isn't understanding the cause of that central to the question? | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 19:55 | answer | added | gd1 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 18:59 | comment | added | user35 | The comments here probably aren't a good place to discuss what happened on reddit. | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 16:30 | comment | added | David Z | I would emphasize what immibis said. There's a lot of misinformation floating around (even on reddit itself), and a lot of people under the impression that the protest was all about Victoria getting fired, but if you look at the actual communications from individual subreddit moderators, they're all complaining about a prolonged history of lack of responsiveness and bad communication from the administrators. The fact that there was no warning for Victoria getting fired (not even the firing itself, just the way it was done) was the last straw. I'm not sure that's clear from the question. | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 1:10 | answer | added | Sibin Grasic | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 0:42 | comment | added | MDMarra | And what was the outcome? Pretty much nothing. The world keeps turning. Sure, some questions probably have lower quality answers than they would have, but the site didn't come crashing to a halt. New users replace old users and it doesn't really matter. Given that Stack Exchange is so diverse and containerized, I really think any type of damage something like this can cause here would be isolated and almost unnoticed in the long-run (which is also what I think will happen with Reddit). | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 0:40 | comment | added | MDMarra | This actually happened to a small degree on Server Fault about a year ago. For many months, moderators and high-rep users felt that there was a flood of poor questions and that the SE staff cared more about the google traffic they drove than the quality of the content. Then some moderators stepped down, and the highly-active chat emptied out in favor of a chatroom on Slack which has around 25-50 active users at a time who used to be heavily involved in SF. These are folks with thousands of answered questions each that almost never go to SF anymore. | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 0:03 | answer | added | Heptite | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 23:47 | answer | added | user35 | timeline score: 45 | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 23:34 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Cool! Visitors from Reddit, welcome! Please note that Stack Exchange sites are Q&A sites, not discussion forums; while the Reddit revolt is the prompt for this question, this question isn't specifically about that. Please check out our short tour and all our other questions, including some about reddit. We'd love to have your participation here, within our scope guidelines. | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 23:04 | history | asked | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |