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Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by iiiggglll »

jacalata wrote: post #109
iiiggglll wrote: post #97

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Count me as part of the strange group that is dismayed at the quality but for some reason I can't fully explain, keeps showing up. I've had an account since late 2000 (yes, 17 years). I still read Metafilter pretty much every day, but I have gotten to where I will not comment, because I recognize that I do not think the "right" way. I've made perhaps two comments in the last 6 years. I frequently will type up a comme…

FYI, the political threads during the American election tended to be very fast moving and there was a new thread every day - so there was plenty of discussion of her resignation, but it was mostly done before the thread you were in.

I recall looking around at the time but didn't see anything. The most recent thread was already done when it happened, and then the convention one was opened with pretty much no mention of it at all. Even now I can't find any substantial discussion of it.[1] It seemed to happen between threads and then the topic was just strangely ignored. I just can't imagine it would be so quiet if the RNC chair had resigned and the R convention was underway. At the time it felt like it came under the same bucket as the mod warning at the top of the convention thread about not "re-litigating the primaries" ... don't talk about it!

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/search.mefi?q=schultz+r...

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by jedanbik »

joezydeco wrote: post #110
arkitaip wrote: post #38

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Nonsense. Cortex (Josh) and mods have been working hard and it shows in that quality is what it's always been.

I also didn't realize Cortex now owns Metafilter.

It just happened. There's a stickied MetaTalk post about it still I think.

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by jacalata »

iiiggglll wrote: post #111
jacalata wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI, the political threads during the American election tended to be very fast moving and there was a new thread every day - so there was plenty of discussion of her resignation, but it was mostly done before the thread you were in.

I recall looking around at the time but didn't see anything. The most recent thread was already done when it happened, and then the convention one was opened with pretty much no mention of it at all. Even now I can't find any substantial discussion of it.[1] It seemed to happen between threads and then the topic was just strangely ignored. I just can't imagine it would be so quiet if the RNC chair had resigned and th…

http://www.metafilter.com/161151/Election-Update-John-Adams-...

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by joezydeco »

jedanbik wrote: post #112
joezydeco wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also didn't realize Cortex now owns Metafilter.

It just happened. There's a stickied MetaTalk post about it still I think.

Was the banner at the top of the blue only recently added? I don't really read MetaTalk.

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by dang »

lazugod wrote: post #102
dang wrote: post #19

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Good grief! I'm not sure where you got that, but https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=... and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&date... and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html .

Out of curiosity, how did you develop your moderation style?

Can you be more specific?

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by DashRattlesnake »

gumboshoes wrote: post #98
DashRattlesnake wrote: post #79

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> They're modding out reposts. Repetitiveness. Copypasta. The same-old rehashes. Trolls. Vitriol. Attacks on other users. Rule violations. Pile-ons. Eh, I don't think that's really a fair characterization. Yeah, sure, they delete dups, etc., but no one's complaining about that. The mods also delete stuff from an ever-increasing (but ill-defined) list of topics that "Metafilter doesn't do well," which basically means…

What you call "topics Metafilter doesn't do well" I call "same-old rehashes." They're topics the world doesn't do well. It's a feature of the site, not a bug.

> They're topics the world doesn't do well. It's a feature of the site, not a bug.

That's the standard justification, but it leaves a lot to be desired. For one, IIRC, even brand new topics have been moderated away because the mods judged discussion might not go in the "correct" direct (for lack of a better word). Two, avoiding disagreement to the degree Metafilter does is a recipe for tension and dysfunction.

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by jessamyn »

DashRattlesnake wrote: post #105
jessamyn wrote: post #93

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IronMouth I think? I don't mod there anymore and haven't in a while but I still see some of the respected conservative commenters there but fewer than in the past.

IIRC, wasn't he a Democrat and a labor lawyer? More of a centrist Democrat than a conservative?

Can't recall, but maybe? We have people all over the map in terms of conservatism in a fiscal sense (some but not many Libertarians, in the US sense) but socially it's a pretty liberal place, so it depends what the overlap is between those things for a lot of people.

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by jessamyn »

joezydeco wrote: post #114
jedanbik wrote: post #112

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It just happened. There's a stickied MetaTalk post about it still I think.

Was the banner at the top of the blue only recently added? I don't really read MetaTalk.

Banner's been there for at least a week.
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