SnarkAsh
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Comment · 7 years ago
True. Worth noting that this is coming up because the volunteers are being mistreated and people were looking for laws that could protect them, and may have found more than they were looking for.
Comment · 7 years ago
While we're discussing Stack Overflow's legal situation:
- Users have raised $9000 to defend a volunteer moderator from defamation by Stack Overflow employees: https://www.gofundme.com/f/stop-stack-overflow-from-defaming...
- Stack Overflow illegally changed the content license without permission from authors (Creative Commons allows such license changes for adaptations but not collections such as Stack Exchange) and refuse to clarify their legal justification (do they feel they have the right to change to any license they choose?): https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...
- Their general counsel appears to have left the company a little before all of this happened: https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/80154...
Comment · 7 years ago
FWIW every job I've had in my 7-year career came from connections that stated though Stack Overflow. No one's hiring on the basis of reputation score, but many employers do reach out to users who have repeatedly demonstrated their technical communication and knowledge.
Comment · 7 years ago
She opted out within the 30 day window, so her options remain open.
Comment · 7 years ago
Some context, although really this is the culmination of a five year breakdown in community trust and there's way too much background to sum up briefly.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-...
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334575/dear-stack-e...
https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2019/10/05/stack-overflow-fias...
Comment · 7 years ago
They only did that after they were called out by multiple Senators and international media, so I don't really give them any credit.
Comment · 7 years ago
At least when you had a micro USB or mini USB cable, you knew it would be compatible with everything of the same form factor.
USB-C's form factor might stick around longer, but its compatibility problems are going to be much worse.