> You know that users are going to call anything that happens to their posts on any website “moderation” right
I have an article published on LWN. The process of getting a pitch approved and then submitting an article and polishing it to editorial standards is quite impressive, and that's part of why reading articles there is so pleasant. And of course, they didn't have to accept my idea, and there was the possibility of coming to an impasse when trying to figure out a rewrite.
Was this process "moderation"? Do you think other Internet users would call it that? I would not.
The problem really is that the framing is already wrong: what you write on Stack Overflow is not a "post" in the first place, except in a really generic sense (or perhaps if you're looking at the database schema or maybe the codebase). Posts are what you put on discussion forums. Stack Overflow is there specifically to be something else. User generated content is not all "posts". (Would you use that term for a Wikipedia article?) Calling your writing a "post" comes with rhetorical baggage that gives a false impression of the site model.
I have an article published on LWN. The process of getting a pitch approved and then submitting an article and polishing it to editorial standards is quite impressive, and that's part of why reading articles there is so pleasant. And of course, they didn't have to accept my idea, and there was the possibility of coming to an impasse when trying to figure out a rewrite.
Was this process "moderation"? Do you think other Internet users would call it that? I would not.
The problem really is that the framing is already wrong: what you write on Stack Overflow is not a "post" in the first place, except in a really generic sense (or perhaps if you're looking at the database schema or maybe the codebase). Posts are what you put on discussion forums. Stack Overflow is there specifically to be something else. User generated content is not all "posts". (Would you use that term for a Wikipedia article?) Calling your writing a "post" comes with rhetorical baggage that gives a false impression of the site model.