Oh, my.

The Webbys.

Kinda says it all.

I had been getting cautiously optimistic that the leadership at Stack Exchange had understood (at least a little) just what they had come into control of and had adjusted their focus a little from pure numbers to something like actual utility. But this suggests a focus on mass popularity. So, for all the fine work that the remaining CMs and new public facing employees have been putting in, the ship remains on the same course.