The question-answer website Stack Exchange is now facing a small crisis as around 20 volunteer moderators have quit the platform over corporate policy changes as well as the termination of a moderator, Monica Cellio, for pushing back on some of the policy changes.
Stack Exchange have revoked the position of Cellio over allegedly violating unpublished Code of Conduct changes. Cellio, in a post, explained that she was terminated under the assumption that Cellio “will in the future violate a thoughtcrime-style provision of a Code of Conduct change that hasn’t been made yet.”
"On Friday, half an hour before Shabbat and two days before Rosh Hashana, Stack Overflow Inc. suddenly revoked my moderator status on all sites where I had it. I found this out while handling flags, when I suddenly got notifications for Marshal and Deputy badges (which moderators are ineligible to earn). They did this not because I've done anything to violate SE policies (which I have not done), but because they think I will in the future violate a thoughtcrime-style provision of a Code of Conduct change that hasn't been made yet."
Cellio had drawn attention to the fact that Stack Exchange’s revised Code of Conduct requires users to use fellow users' "preferred gender pronouns".
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