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9:00 AM

@dim well it could be a copyright problem, it could be a sensitivity problem, I'm not sure these all have the same answer

user194636

@dim Generally speaking there's a lot of latitude given for people's profiles, and to a slightly lesser extent avatars. If you genuinely find it grossly offensive, raise a custom flag on one of the user's posts and explain your reasoning for a moderator to consider.

user194636

Separately, we don't enforce copyright. That's an issue for the copyright holder to take up with SE.

Emilie

I'm only familiar some of his famous drug dealing activities

user351483

Content and attitude is generally more important than profile pictures.

user194636

Pictures of e.g. Hitler are generally deemed offensive enough to remove as I understand

user194636

9:01 AM

Not something that comes up a lot

dim

@Paul I'm not, myself, offended by many things. I just find this strange and I thought maybe there was some rules about it. But I didn't even think of copyright issues.

John Dvorak

@Snow especially for a space probe

chx

@JourneymanGeek @Shadow what I was very surprised at is how David Fullerton whom was more known for being the engineering lead but is also president now it also community team lead

user194636

@dim Yeah I mentioned copyright because @Emilie mentioned it.

Journeyman Geek

@chx he isn't community lead

Emilie

9:03 AM

We get the occasional offensive user name too

user194636

@dim As I say, we're generally pretty permissive on avatars. Actual flags will be handled by a human making a judgement call.

Emilie

@JourneymanGeek are cats avatars allowed? =^•^=

user58

AFAIK, Tim Post and hairboat are actively in charge of the Community Team, which includes the community-facing CMs and the ones in a support position. This could be outdated information, though.

John Dvorak

Not if the cat holds a copyright over its photo

user194636

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A: As a moderator, how do I handle a potentially inappropriate profile picture?

Our stance on this is simple, but quite subjective. It's first worth reiterating that within reason, a user's profile page is their own domain. Given that: We like people being creative Profile pages aren't the most visible thing on the site To some users, their own profile is often the most v...

Bart

9:06 AM

@JohnDvorak don't you drag us into the monkey selfie copyright debacle again.

chx

@JourneymanGeek "I’m David Fullerton, Stack Overflow’s CTO, responsible for the product, engineering, and community teams."

John Dvorak

@Bart But... it's the only tolerable selfie

Bart

True

Journeyman Geek

@chx so overall boss person

chx

@JourneymanGeek that'd be the CEO. dev.to/stackpodcast/podcast-69--its-too-rainy-for-a-parade this podcast describes him (himself?) " Lord High King of Nerds David Fullerton" which roughly aligns with what a CTO usually is.

user194636

9:11 AM

Well that's a little presumptious

Journeyman Geek

@chx there's also marketing

But overall boss person over the folks involved

And if you think about it

someone not directly in the situation, in the chain of command,

which is kinda a good idea here

user58

Exciting Leadership Announcements

Khalid El Khatib on October 12, 2018

It’s been an exciting 2018 for Stack Overflow. In late spring, we launched our Welcome Wagon initiative to make the network more welcoming. In May, we shipped Stack Overflow for Teams and made our knowledge-sharing platform accessible to teams of any size. And September marked our 10th anniversary, which celebrated the 25 million answers to 16 million questions that have been viewed 12.3 billion times by developers.

We’ve grown the ways that we serve developers, and we’re growing our Executive team to support these initiatives as well our ever-expanding community. The team has two new members, and one of our long-time executives has a new role. …

Doesn't state exactly what David's responsibilities are, but makes it clear it's more management.

@202324 Note that this is from a year ago.

user194636

Who writes their blog post titles

Gryphon

@PaulWhite Yeah, "Exciting Leadership Announcements" is probably the least exciting title ever.

user194636

Five Leadership Changes You Won't Believe

Journeyman Geek

9:21 AM

@user58 you just nerdsniped me

chx

Well, if they have an entire VP of Marketing and Communications then why doesn't do... the communicating job

I don't understand anything

but then again, I am just lowly Drupal developer. What do I know.

user206222

I say this without any cynicism -- it's probably at least in part an optics thing. It appears way better to get a reply from someone Higher Up than the level you complained to.

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