It is a good time to be *completely candid*:

We worked hard to get a solid policy in place for the torrent of AI/LLM material that was appearing on Ask Ubuntu. And by 'we' I mean the elected and community moderators, the ***Community*** that is what Ask Ubuntu should be all about.

This is a policy that worked well and a policy that was *always* ready for improvement, for modification as the world of AI/LLM matured.

What we experienced from Stack Exchange was neither improvement nor modification. They proposed first in secret, and then in a watered down public version, to *sweep away* our Community policy and to *completely obstruct* Moderator ability to deal with a flow of almost always *extremely low quality, unverified material*.

Not good enough Stack Exchange!

I am personally not happy to stand aside and watch this happen and I have undertaken the following:

 1. I have signed [the letter of protest][1] which has given a 'line in the sand' to Stack Exchange
 2. I have committed to the upcoming action as of Monday and will be withdrawing from *all* Moderator activities as of that time for the duration of the action

These are not actions taken lightly but in the face of a company that seems to have *no interest* in maintaining ***quality*** on the site, no interest in fostering Community and only great interest in their own bottom line: these steps are necessary...


  [1]: https://openletter.mousetail.nl/