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    I completely understand your frustration and I am doing everything in my power to ensure you can keep what makes your site special. Now, not everything lies within my power, but I will continue to represent our users (ALL users) to the best of my ability. And to be clear, I do not have an answer right now. We are doing research on what users want and what this might look like in the future, but there are product decisions that will need to happen as well that haven't happened yet. Commented 12 hours ago
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    The company's track record with the needs of the smaller sites has been pretty abysmal over the years - we have a few bright spots and things get back to the status quo. From where I am, as a regular user with some experience on meta - I'm really going to have to speak out because I don't really trust the company to understand. A lot of decision makers don't really seem to have the context on the ground - so hopefully you can pass this up to them if it isn't your decision. Commented 12 hours ago
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    "I am doing everything in my power...." That's odd wording. When Stack Overflow makes any random decision, does it matter to users whether any particular employee was for or against it? I don't understand. Commented 9 hours ago
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    Well hence me asking what do we need to do? It feels that the decision is made and locked in . My options are organising a moderation strike (which honestly is terrible for everyone involved, and I'm not good at these things), or claiming this is a major decision made without moderator input, triggering that process... which is also not good for everyone involved, or somehow hoping (with no evidence to that) someone in the company can and will put the brakes on that. I think we can make the latter work and there's time to organise but I'd rather not open up the nuclear option. Commented 5 hours ago
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    @Piper This is not a request to you as an individual. This is a request to the company as a whole. When the response from the companies agent is 'not in my power', that implicitly means 'the company is not interested in consulting the community on this matter'. Its definitely within the companies power. If its not yours, then whoever holds that power is should be taking this feedback into account. If they do not, then well, that is ignoring community feedback and as Journeyman Geek said, a direct violation of the agreement after the strike. Commented 3 hours ago