Seriously, StackOverflow needs to make this right

A non-Scala (indeed, non-programming) article for a change, but IMO this needs a signal boost:

To make a long story short, Monica Cellio (who I have known for 30 years, and is one of the most decent and honorable people I know) got screwed over by StackOverflow a month or two ago: after years of putting a ton of volunteer effort into the site over the years, she was summarily (and rudely) fired because of an apparent misunderstanding on their part. Worse, SO has been playing stupid ego-covering games ever since, refusing to admit that they screwed up, lying, slandering her in public (!!!), and generally behaving reprehensibly.

Monica has posted a request for redress that needs more attention. I commend it to your attention.

I’m putting this here instead of on my personal blog because, frankly, many of us use SO regularly — it’s one of the more important sites for the tech industry, so when they are behaving so irresponsibly it has the potential to affect all of us. If they are willing to actively slander and harm their users, that indicates that maybe we should not trust them, and should perhaps take our questions and answers elsewhere.

So I encourage y’all to spread the word. Monica is not a programmer (she’s a tech writer, but her work has been mainly focused on other StackExchange sites), which I suspect is part of why SO has felt so free to hurt her publicly — they seem to think they can get away with it. We, on the other hand, are their bread and butter, so it’s incumbent on us techies to make clear that this sort of corporate bad behavior is Not Okay…