polotek,
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What does "community-led" mean in this context?
https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112428431536118693

JasonPunyon,
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@polotek Maybe it’s the opposite of VC led? OP glossed over that the VC money didn’t show up for about two years. And even when it did a lot of it got spent hiring people straight from meta. We held the majority of the board seats (@anildash was there). Not a lotta twirling of mustaches from my recollection.

anildash,
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@JasonPunyon @polotek the other large issue here is "VC" as the signifier when the company sold to an owner years ago? There are no VCs running Stack Overflow at present.

jimfl,
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@polotek “community-driven” seems like a better description of SO. The content, content curation, and content refinement was done by the community. Moderation was done by moderators “elected” by company personnel.

I just realized I’m talking about SO in the past tense…

janl,
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@polotek they delegated a lot of community management and moderation to folks using the site. Free labour on top of the free labour.

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