Largely because we're currently nosediving towards a no-recovery scenario, and I want to maximise the good I do while we're still getting data dumps and stuff
There's a change coming in anywhere from today to within two weeks that, if the mods who made the statements follow through on them, will result in at least two resignations on SO
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@ShadowWizardLoveZelda That's part of the problem. It isn't as enjoyable when I have this feeling that the actions I take won't amount to anything meaningful long-term
I'm currently fighting the part of me saying what I'm doing is pointless. Even if I help improve the quality of the data dumps, what would that result in? Codidact isn't importing anything, so at best, I feed a genAI with slightly better data (assuming they don't keep stuff in the previous data dumps, in which case, nothing good happens)
I don't see a world where the effort achieves either of the two goals I had when I started contributing, and that I later doubled down on when I got elected; contributing to the Q&A, and contributing to maintaining the community. The company is killing the community, and the future of the Q&A is uncertain at best, so this is a last-ditch effort while both still exist
Ugh, anyway
I am (and have been) working on a comment moderation tool for a while. I'm getting ready to hook up a bulk deletion endpoint into a fully manual part of it so I can delete more with less quota
@Zoeisonstrike well maybe you'll find comfort knowing the same applies to everything in life... nothing we do has a big impact in the long term, except in really really rare cases. ;)
So we share our tiny part, try to be good, trying to spread some goodness where possible, and that's about it.
@ShadowWizardLoveZelda While I tend to agree, my beef isn't about the long-term, but the short term. The company is digging its own hole so incredibly fast that it isn't a matter of years anymore; if stuff continues to play out on the trajectory they currently are, it's a matter of months at best
@Zoeisonstrike months until what? SE won't close down, it just degrades, and that's a slow process. And there will always be users who do like the changes and not leave, or even join.
The more stuff SE piles on the list of stupid actions, the closer we get to that point. It is still possible to recover after that point, but it's significantly more difficult. We've barely recovered from the strike in 2019, and now we're back down thanks to the strike in 2023, and ongoing destructive actions from SE
