It's incredible that pronouns can bring down an entire community. Pick you battles please, we're losing good things because of this silly conflict.
“Keeping your identity small” has certainly gone out of fashion.
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#32I don’t understand why gender/pronouns is even being discussed. Someone’s personal feelings don’t really have any place in a question/answers site. It’s fine to respect a persons feelings and such when talking to a person but when answering a question or asking the question. The gender/pronoun is irrelevant.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still quite difficult for normies to get to the 15 reputation threshold on SO in order to begin using the site effectively. There are problems here that run a lot deeper than political correctness, though I don't want to minimize how cancerous that has been.
"normies"?
I think wyclif means casual users, who want to participate in SE community by answering questions.
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#34While, in the beginning, a very active user, I've long now given up on that network. I can't remember when was the last time I asked a question without being forced to defend it for a period of at least a few hours, why it shouldn't be closed as a duplicate, offtopic or ... It used to be an excellent network, but nowadays it's just script-kiddies-playing-admins/editors playground. It is no longer a productive technic…
I don't understand this cry against moderators. These people are volunteerily giving their time to keep quality bar high without any payment. If these people weren't there then SO will be full of duplicates, off-topic and opinion based Q&A just like Quora. A general tendency I have seen is just to ask (often poorly stated) questions without doing simple search to see if it is already answered. Someone needs to respect those people picking up garbage on the street.
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#35I don’t understand why gender/pronouns is even being discussed. Someone’s personal feelings don’t really have any place in a question/answers site. It’s fine to respect a persons feelings and such when talking to a person but when answering a question or asking the question. The gender/pronoun is irrelevant.
It's confusing to me too. Very clearly this is a battle for which there are only losers and no winners.
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#36Honest Question: Why continue to support stack exchange through this? They have shown themselves to be disingenuous at best. They are now profiting off free labor. They started it because ExpertsExchange was hiding answers. They rode the high horse to hypocrisy. Why continue helping people like that succeed? Why not just start a new one? Leave en masse to a new playground. Speak with your answers. Show the powers tha…
what do you mean by support? I google and sometimes use their content and that's it. There are other sources.
By support I mean, continue to moderate their website for them. Answer questions for them. Ask questions of them.
Continue to give them time and help them create the product they are going to sell to someone else and keep all the money for themselves.
And also support by voicing concerns. Showing them what their user base wants when they clearly don't care what their user base wants, only what they want in their wallet.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
"normies"?
I think wyclif means casual users, who want to participate in SE community by answering questions.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Ordinary techies and devs who come for answers and aren't invested in the culture and politics of SE because they may not know much about it.
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#39Shouldn’t the CTO fire the person who was directly responsible for firing Monica? Why isn’t that part of it?
because she has 46k Twitter followers and the company fears Twitter above all else
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#40"Beware of words. The moment you look away, they will take on a life of their own; they will dazzle, mesmerize, terrorize, lead you astray from the reality they represent, lead you to believe they are real. The world you see is not the kingdom seen by children, but a fragmented world, broken into a thousand pieces by the word. It is as if each ocean wave were seen to be distinct and separate from the body of the ocean."