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Re: Guthib

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Post by googlryas »

em-bee wrote: post #109
googlryas wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They said "nsfw", not "not safe for me" or "this is porn". They're making a comment about workplace conditions, not their own viewpoints. You aren't badass for "being cool" with this imagery.

the image is boring and dumb. but a place where this is considered not safe is not a place where would want to work.

Ok, and?

The person I'm replying to said "If you think this is NSFW, then I don't think you should be spending any time on the internet. The internet is not safe for you."

Re: Guthib

#122

Post by googlryas »

jlkuester7 wrote: post #87
googlryas wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Women aren't the arbiter of what is sfw or nsfw. I'm curious why you jumped to "women" here, when they aren't relevant to the conversation. Do you think women need to be protected from unsafe imagery at work, or "nsfw" is designed to protect women?

Pretty sure that your interpretation of their intent behind bringing up "women" says more about you then it does about them.... An alternative interpretation would be "many women find phallic humor to be funny". As the HN comment guidelines suggest: > Assume good faith. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Pretty sure that your interpretation of their intent behind bringing up "women" says more about you then it does about them....

Ah yes, the classic "You're sexist for pointing out sexism" argument.

> An alternative interpretation would be "many women find phallic humor to be funny".

An interpretation which has nothing to do with the comments at hand, which is determining if some content is SFW or not.

> As the HN comment guidelines suggest: > Assume good faith.

Yes, that means assume good faith when there is uncertainty. I don't see much uncertainty in the post in question, they are fairly explicit about their point.

Re: Guthib

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Post by em-bee »

ohbtvz wrote: post #113
em-bee wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the image is boring and dumb. but a place where this is considered not safe is not a place where would want to work.

Good for you, but your values are not universal and not everyone has the same opportunity to choose their workplace as easily as you apparently do.

this is not about different values but about oppression.

if a colleague were to share this image at work, i would tell them to stop wasting my time with this dumb stuff. if it was a member of a team i am leading i would tell them to stop goofing around and get back to work.

if on the other hand, someone would denounce this person for sharing inappropriate images, i would consider that an act of oppression. we are supposed to work together, and not against each other.

a work culture where every little transgression has severe consequences is not healthy.

if this image makes someone uncomfortable, they are welcome to talk to me and i will listen to learn why. i suspect most likely, it's not the image itself that's the problem, but the attitude of those who laugh at it. i will then talk to those people and do my best to get them to improve their attitude about such matters.

there are things that are inappropriate to do at work, and one of them is to make dumb jokes like this, but that doesn't make the image itself not safe for work.

and as for choosing my workplace, i come from a country where employees actually have rights. and one of those rights is to share their personal opinions, even if others disagree, as long as doing so is not disruptive. the idea that the leaders in the company can tell their employees what they are allowed to talk about or not is rather alien to me.

this doesn't mean that it's ok to say or share things that are hurtful. it only means that there is no topic that is a priori not allowed to be discussed at the work place.

if this image comes up because someone in my team actually did mistype their url, they may share it with the team, and if they have the appropriate attitude, they will dismiss it, denounce the maker of that website as juvenile and move on. if someone walks by, having no idea why this image is there on the screen, they may inquire about it, or come to me and ask me what that is supposed to be about. we'll check, find out and move on.

calling this image not safe for work, creates an environment of fear, that itself is not healthy and in the country where i come from, not acceptable.

Re: Guthib

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Post by hairofadog »

em-bee wrote: post #123
ohbtvz wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good for you, but your values are not universal and not everyone has the same opportunity to choose their workplace as easily as you apparently do.

this is not about different values but about oppression. if a colleague were to share this image at work, i would tell them to stop wasting my time with this dumb stuff. if it was a member of a team i am leading i would tell them to stop goofing around and get back to work. if on the other hand, someone would denounce this person for sharing inappropriate images, i would consider that an act of oppression. we are sup…

I usually take "NSFW" to mean, Thing you might be embarrassed for other people whom you may not know well to see you looking at without context, not necessarily that it's going to result in severe consequences or trauma. I'm sure there are companies where an image like this would warrant an overreaction, and I agree with you on the absurdity of that, but I think the less hyperbolic meaning above is more common.

Re: Guthib

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Post by nosecreek »

jaywalk wrote: post #13
plg wrote: post #6

I always thought someone should make a github for cooking recipes and call it guthub

Unfortunately Microsoft already owns guthub.com and redirects it to github.com, ruining a perfectly good idea.

True, but guthub.ca is (or now was) available. @plg, do you mind if I steal the idea? Actually love the idea of open source recipes with pull requests, branches, etc. and I’ve been looking for an idea for my next side project…

Re: Guthib

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Post by em-bee »

hairofadog wrote: post #125
em-bee wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is not about different values but about oppression. if a colleague were to share this image at work, i would tell them to stop wasting my time with this dumb stuff. if it was a member of a team i am leading i would tell them to stop goofing around and get back to work. if on the other hand, someone would denounce this person for sharing inappropriate images, i would consider that an act of oppression. we are sup…

I usually take "NSFW" to mean, Thing you might be embarrassed for other people whom you may not know well to see you looking at without context , not necessarily that it's going to result in severe consequences or trauma. I'm sure there are companies where an image like this would warrant an overreaction, and I agree with you on the absurdity of that, but I think the less hyperbolic meaning above is more common.

that's a fair point. i just take issue with diluting the meaning of a term by using it for things that are just mildly inappropriate vs things that are actually harmful or hurtful. it all just contributes to an environment of fear. i prefer that these terms be reserved for things that actually warrant a strong reaction.

Re: Guthib

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Post by WorldMaker »

jp57 wrote: post #37

What's weird to me is that this seems like a totally implausible accidental misspelling, which just shows how differently people type, I guess. I can see that 'i' and 'u' are adjacent on the keyboard, but if you touch-type, they belong to different fingers, and I can't see how I'd transpose them while getting all the other letters right. If my right hand were shifted over by a key, I might get 'gutguv' or 'gotjim', I…

To my understanding, letter transpositions are common even for great touch typists. Especially letters in the same "category" (such as shifting vowels around in this instance). Sure, it's a different "feel" when typing it wrong and if you are paying attention you might catch it, but you generally when touch typing don't think about the specific feel of individual letters, but the pattern or "shape" of the overall word. "gut" is a common enough word pattern (and an English word in its own right). "hib" is not, but if your brain/muscle memory is expecting the full "word" "github" and knows it uses both fingers "in the middle of the shapes" and it already used "u" it can be a likely transposition to wind up with "hib".

Re: Guthib

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Post by easrng »

adamredwoods wrote: post #111
batman-farts wrote: post #44

A worthy successor to http://isgrudengoneyet.com/

I wish there was a list of these novelty web addresses. http://www.blankwebsite.com/ https://www.blank.org/ https://isoaklandburning.com/ http://isitraininginportland.com/

Blank.org is someone's actual (very old) website https://www.blank.org/blankmore.html
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