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Jon Ericson

Jan 14 18:18

@canon Thanks! I started yesterday and it's been a firehose of information!

Jon Quixote

Dec 11, 2024 06:55

Jon Quixote: Communities Manager at the OpenSSL Foundation

posted on December 10, 2024

An abbreviated timeline of the last year of my life: November 7, 2023: I was laid off. December 2, 2024: I wrote about my year of Jubilee. December 5, 2024: I got word that I'd been hired as Communities Manager for OpenSSL. For a view of my mental state after a year of scrapping for work, consider a dream I had the night after I got the news. In my dream, the offer was generous---at the top…

hairboat

Jun 5, 2023 17:44

eh, this room still exists, huh? <blows dust off the window sills>

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Jon Quixote

Jan 17, 2020 20:43

Jon Quixote: Why I left Stack Overflow

posted on January 17, 2020

Today is my last day as an employee of Stack Exchange, Inc. I’m extremely excited to be starting my new job as Community Product & Operations Manager of College Confidential. It’s a fantastic opportunity (and terrifying challenge) for me. Today, however, I’m going to talk about why I left what I long considered my dream job. Last summer I took a four-week sabbatical/roadtrip to visit fami…

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rene

Apr 9, 2023 05:39

Easter!

terdon

Apr 7, 2022 15:45

Hi @JonEricson. I just realized you're no longer a mod and we won't be seeing you in the TL, so I just wanted to drop by and tell you that you will be missed!

Jon Ericson

Feb 18, 2020 21:33

I care about the community I'm working with on the new job, but I'm very sympathetic to what it must be like to walk into a situation like SO/SE without a lot of experience in community management or this set of users. Easy to miss cultural queues and norms.

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rene

Jan 18, 2020 10:37

@JonEricson Your latest blog is nice, gives insight about some things I guessed was happening.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:33

And look where that got him - can you not see why he is dubious of dealing with you guys?

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Jon Ericson

Jun 14, 2019 17:54

@Namaste It's a chat room I try to keep open in order to have a place to talk with folks who have something on their mind. (I'd even talk about Java if necessary.)

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Jon Ericson

Jul 10, 2021 19:42

Not much to see there yet, but I'm building an online community consulting business: buildcivitas.com

Jon Quixote

Mar 24, 2021 00:03

Jon Quixote: Ask not what a community is worth . . .

posted on March 23, 2021

CMX recently released "The 2021 Community Industry Report" and I have thoughts. I'm gonna focus on this one chart that summarizes Community Management in 2021: I was one of the 503 people who answered "What are your top frustrations about managing your community and its activities?" The top 5 answers were: It's hard to quantify the value of the community (45%) It's dif…

Jon Ericson

Mar 18, 2021 19:00

@rene Heh. I have dozens of drafts that I hope to finally push out the door.

Himarm

Mar 16, 2016 18:22

tho as richards profile says, feel free to share whatever

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:15

He didn't disrupt anything in Mos Eisley, and the people in Mos know it.

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Jon Ericson

Nov 24, 2020 14:20

I was interviewed about my new job:

Jon Ericson

Sep 30, 2020 18:58

Perhaps it's nostalgia speaking, but I hope Stack Exchange finds another generation of fans. And I hope that projects like Codidact succeed as well. The Q&A format is wonderful and I don't see why one network should monopolize it. Trouble is, Stack Overflow doesn't see the value in sites that don't related to their (weird) emphasis on "technology". So I'm afraid the Stack Exchange experiment will fail. (Though it probably will be many years before the utter end. Maybe someone will wake up.)

Jon Ericson

Sep 30, 2020 18:50

We delegated so much authority to mods, which was, in a sense, a reward for the difficult and often unappreciated work they do. What happened last year was that the company took away some of that authority while also adding to the burden. It was a classic "more bricks, less straw" situation.

Jon Ericson

Sep 30, 2020 18:48

The Token Economy of Stack Overflow

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Dan

Sep 29, 2020 07:52

Wow

Jon Quixote

Jul 9, 2020 20:38

Jon Quixote: Responding to reader mail

posted on July 08, 2020

I got an email from a reader a few months ago. My reply got a little long and off-topic to what the reader had asked about. So I'm posting here and will email a copy to the reader too. The actual question is, I think, easy enough to guess and not terribly necessary to understand my response. Hello, Thank you for responding to my blog post. In many ways I write for myself and it's always a b…

rene

Jun 25, 2020 15:18

No problem, you can ping me anytime and I will explain how all those features on the site work ;)

Jon Ericson

Jun 15, 2020 22:20

@rene I do!

Jon Ericson

Jun 1, 2020 20:46

My boss wanted to know who participates on our forums and I spent far too long speculating. The answer is so much easier and more accurate. I just asked.

Jon Ericson

Feb 26, 2020 07:40

@JonQuixote For those who don't like Twitter.

Jon Ericson

Jan 23, 2020 21:19

My new company has a Twitter account: twitter.com/collegeconfide

user152859

Jan 19, 2020 15:28

@Jon while I'm sorry to see you go, I'm sure you'll feel much better in the new place, so kudos for the brave decision, and keep doing great things for the place you work for. :)

Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:57

We trust him.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:56

@JonEricson There absolutely is.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:56

The question is whether you're willing to try it.

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rand al'thor

Mar 16, 2016 18:47

Ironically, his fear of being targeted and suspended by the CMs led to him being ... suspended by the CMs. If he hadn't expressed that fear, and instead concentrated on settling back into Mos, he might have been fine.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:45

And the main issue Jon has raised here was Richard's sarcastic response to Ana, but that exchange was instigated by Ana, and yesterday, Ana said the thing she chided Richard for wasn't against the rules.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:40

I don't think that's a constructive attitude either. But I think when someone feels like the people in charge are provoking him, the people in charge might do well to take a step back until he does something that is genuinely disruptive.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:16

It feels like he's been railroaded, from an elected mod position to a suspension to a year-long chat ban.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:13

The only ones who seem not to want to work with Richard, vis a vis the new culture in Mos, are the CMs.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:11

@JonEricson It got better because we made a conscious effort to change it, not because Richard was gone. Give us some credit, please.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 17:53

And saying you've been threatened by a CM after a CM threatens you isn't picking a fight, it is being honest.

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Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 17:52

@JonEricson It looks to me like you've got that backwards. He responded to a gruff comment.

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Jon Ericson

Jan 5, 2016 00:15

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Q: Why didn't I get the Hairboat's revenge hat?

According to the secret hat trigger list: So I left this comment: It's been over 4 hours and I still don't have the hat. What gives?

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Jon Ericson

Dec 14, 2015 20:01

For your hat hacking needs, may I recommend this answer.

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rene

Jan 29, 2019 18:25

@MathOverflowMeta broken avatar ...

Jon Ericson

Nov 18, 2016 16:11

This is turning into the Skeptics room.

ArtOfCode

Apr 4, 2016 07:49

@amarillo Thanks for raising your concerns. Let me be the first to apologise: yes, that was an April fools' prank, partially something I instigated. None of us really expected it to go over as it did - the majority of rooms took it ok, but a larger number than we expected were unsettled by it. I hear favourable things about you from the scifi mods, so it would be a shame to lose a prolific chatter - you have my apologies, and we've taken all the feedback on board.

Richard

Mar 16, 2016 19:17

@JonEricson - Cheers. I'm having a think about my response. I'm a bit shell-shocked about the whole thing at the moment.

Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 19:10

@JonEricson That sounds very fair, and I REALLY appreciate your willingness to work with us.

Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 19:00

We can do what you can't here.

Jon Ericson

Mar 16, 2016 18:59

@WadCheber Unfortunately, we don't trust Richard. You all speaking for him doesn't change that, unfortunately.

Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:57

Unsuspend him and back off. Give us a chance to help him.

Wad Cheber

Mar 16, 2016 18:55

@JonEricson Correlation, not causation.

Himarm

Mar 16, 2016 18:46

@Null hard to take up to much time when you post some 40 message in the 6 months

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