Question: I just posted to our blog about our [Third Quarter Community Roadmap for 2020](https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/07/23/the-loop-our-community-roadmap-for-q3-2020/).

[![Q3 2020 Community Roadmap. For July: "Community at our Center": Training Launch and New Moderator Agreement. "Community Builders": Review Queue: Reviewer Suspend Experience. "Inclusion": Downvotes Research. For August: "Community at our Center": Moderator Quarterly Survey and Lavender Letter Follow Up. "Community Builders": SME Content Strategy. "Inclusion": Reactions Test Analysis. "Grow & Scale: Internationalization - Discovery and Election Automation - Discovery. "Connecting Users to Opportunity": Interaction Modeling/Engaged User Satisfaction. "General Improvements": New Editor. For September: "Community at our Center": Moderator Council: Governance. "Community Builders": SME Content Release. "Inclusion": Moderator D&I Training and New User Email Series v2. "Grow & Scale": Teachers' Lounge Moderation and Tools for Community Managers. "Connecting Users to Opportunity": Area 51: The Way Forward - Discovery. "General Improvements": GDPR Consent Management v2.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jIMF1.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jIMF1.png)

Please see the post for details on the projects that our Community and Public Platform teams aim to work on this quarter.

We are interested in your thoughts and questions regarding our upcoming projects and priorities on the roadmap.

Answer: 
Since I'm in the middle of trying to get some moderation in place on the *moderator* end of things, and rustling up some missing functionality - does this involve retrofitting moderation tools into the "legacy" [TL](https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/teachers-lounge/info), or enhancing the temp-permanent one on the MSE chat-server?

If it's the latter - would it be possible to take into account tools/abilities for TL Room Owners in the process?

If there's any secret squirrel stuff going on - I'm happy to move the conversation elsewhere.
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> Downvotes research (July)
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> Receiving downvotes on Stack Overflow can be a frustrating and
> confusing experience. We currently ask users to downvote posts that
> are not useful or are unclear, but this can be subjective and
> interpreted in different ways. We will run a short targeted onsite
> survey to better understand what motivates users to downvote a post
> and **use this data to inform inclusion and engagement opportunities.**
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Whom do you plan to inform here?

From *inclusion and engagement* part it reads like you want to engage and inform users that downvote posts.

If that is true, I think you are missing main point. Downvotes are for poor and unsuitable content, they are cast because users asking questions (or posting answers) are not following site guidelines.

If you eliminate users that will not follow guidelines no matter what, what remains are users that were not properly informed about guidelines before posting. This is huge pain point, especially on Stack Overflow. You need to improve informing about guidelines and informing about consequences before users start writing their first posts.