[exhilaration]

It's interesting, I'm on Hacker News almost every day and have benefited enormously from Stack Overflow yet I have no idea what you're talking about or who Monica Cellio is. My guess is that the vast majority of their users haven't either.

I only mention this because seemingly major events in online communities don't always have the impact that people involved or following closely think they do.

[AlexandrB]

As with Wikipedia, there's a community of volunteers curating and moderating SO. Drama in that community doesn't necessarily bubble up in obvious ways like the site going down, but I'm sure it has an overall effect on content moderation and quality over time.

[philovivero]

Yep. Same. Read HN at least 2-3x/wk and use Stack Overflow and a bunch of their related sub-sites about the same frequency. No clue who this is or what the event is referring to.

(Nor do I want to gain any clue)

[omaranto]

> (Nor do I want to gain any clue)

OK! Duly noted.

[kbelder]

I wouldn't expect you to. HN doesn't report on everything happening in every online community.

It was a thing Stack Exchange did to a Stack Exchange community moderator, that had a big impact on those involved with the Stack Exchange community. I didn't mean to imply that the repercussions were felt around the world; just that it was a big deal in the group that was intimately involved.

There were newspaper articles and half a dozen HN threads about it, though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21149770

[OJFord]

The only way I'm aware of it is prominent users/moderators having changed their display name to things like '<original name> - Reinstate Monica'.

Or maybe I also saw an HN thread about it, but mainly that. (I still see them.)

[Ziggy_Zaggy]

Same.