@asktyagi The central theme is that there's an strike. SE made some changes that angered a lot of the people moderating various sites, including the people running Smokey. Thus the situation. Most people believe the strike is a temporary state - and intend return to moderation once the issues are resolved.

@djdomi Don't do that. That hides spam. Flag, and leave alone. At four flags (lowered from six) it will be deleted.

@Paul 4 red flags nukes the content. Red flags = spam/abuse.

The title change is certainly interesting. The attempts at damage control probably creates more damage right now.

I agree. I also note that it's not consistently enforced; over on AU it's still two featured posts about the strike.

I would very much like an official answer to that effect. Cowardice and hiding doesn't really build trust currently.

Why was this un-featured?

I must admit I've not followed things that close lately, but it appears to me that things are becoming more corporate, alienating the community in the process. The key users making the community tick disappears, and it takes time to build new ones. On serverfault there's almost nothing left, AU still has something.

I, For one, Welcomes our new AI overlords...

I don't disagree. It's just sad that they force all sites to follow it without regard for local moderation.

Yup. But I see the community on sites such as AskUbuntu collapsing. And that site had a great community. Even as a non-ubuntu user I enjoyed it, because of it's community.