As a quick feedback on that issue - few months after it got all resolved and steeled down - this above was (and is) the best approach! Do not ever falsely assume that you might "buddy up" with your management, that you might "express yourself" or anything like that! Think from a professional point of view: do you job and keep the private mess away from the work place. If you are asked about it directly, try your best to stay away from mixing yourself in. — GeekSince19825 hours ago
A few of the security ones should be moved to job-security, a fair few should probably be tagged privacy instead. I think the tag itself might be useful but it needs a definition and probably a warning not to confuse it with job-security.
@Lilienthal I think, reading across those questions, that simplifying as you suggest is best, but the tag should remain. I reviewed them just to see if any would be appropriate over on Security.SE, but sadly not.
Welcome to a restart of the Broken Windows Review project. These posts are intended to simplify the cleanup of closed questions. By listing a number of such questions in a single meta thread, users can quickly find questions that are in need of improvement, reopening or deletion. See this post fo...
Comment threads on that pointed out that we have 25% closed questions so I'm unsure of the format for future reviews
This one just lasted way too long, caused way too much debate and was entirely too much effort for few results imo.
I'm thinking just simplifying part of the template, reducing the "debate this below" angle and linking vastly more questions.
Like "all closed ones from Sep 2015" for instance and only providing links.
If people feel a question is worth saving they can start a comment thread in an answer, otherwise it'd just serve as a collection of easy links to questions that need delete votes.
The main problem is that there is no delete vote queue from what I can tell.
I have a habit of ending all my emails like so :
Thanks,
Adel
But the default setting is that every email automatically says "Regards," at the bottom. Is the "Thanks" unnecessary in that case? Or is it a good add-on to include?
Many of my colleagues would only start off with a "hi" and don'...
@Pequod if your goal is to make fun of other users let me be perfectly clear - that attitude is not welcome here. It seems rather ironic to be mocking other people for their inability to grasp "common sense" questions but demonstrating you seem unable to grasp basic common sense in actual interpersonal interactions yourself. — enderland ♦Feb 2 at 17:42
What is funny, is how you don't draw a line where genuine queries cross into absurdity. Seems anything goes on this SE. Did you ever solve the conundrum of which ways pens should stand up?
I find it hard to take someone calling a site pretentious serious when one of their first actions was to post a post mocking and insulting users of the site
Frankly @Pequod, if you really want to be taken seriously I suggest you cut out all the inane netspeak and condescension. You seem to be on the fast-track to a chat ban and possibly an account suspension if you continue your disruptive behaviour.
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I just really don't get why you're choosing to spend time here. Do you think you're trolling or something?
The only reason I haven't added you to my ignore list is that I want to make sure you don't scare away newbies and so that I'm around to flag you if/when you finally crack completely.
If you find my behaviour disruptive @Lilienthal then I'm afraid it's only applied to the four people that congregate this apparently off-topic-but-not-really chatroom. If that's not enough to warrant a ban (it isn't) then I'll be sure to message you first when I "crack" and start telling newbies that it doesn't matter if you address your boss with a "hi" or a "hello" and downvote the 1500 word essay one of you supplied as an answer
@AndreiROM I agree. Sure we get some questions that are "out there" sometimes (what community doesn't?), but even if the OP has a really misguided idea, a good answer can set that straight and be useful for others. Like that question yesterday about documenting your work during your notice period -- the OP clearly didn't understand ownership and corporate interests, and answers addressed that. People might not like his attitude but that doesn't make the question inappropriate.
Keep in mind what is common sense to you might not be to other people.
There are plenty of situations on here that a lot of people look at and think, "duh, do X" but if it was that obvious to everyone, the person asking wouldn't have had to ask it.
@Pequod You have been putting way too much effort into your crusade against the so-called poor questions. It is not that I disagree with your sentiment per se, but you seriously are overdoing it.
I mean, come on. How do I ask my manager for time off? How long should I wait before decorating my desk? How do I follow up an email that just says "thank you"? My colleagues have too much fun! What should I do? How can I ask my boss to leave two minutes early?
I think there's a really thick lin...
@Pequod The difference in POV is not really the problem here. I can almost feel that your intention is to improve this site, only your expression comes across as destructive criticism, rather than constructive one, and that ticks off a lot of people.
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The poor questions are reinforced by the reputation-hungry posters. Like that little number by your name means anything. It's amusing to me. I want to find out why. Why answer such stupid questions and reinforce the notion that they should be allowed here. Then there's forums within forums about whether or not a certain thing should happen on the main forum. No one cares, and I find it fascinating that it continues to happen
The people here who are so hungry for rep probably missed out on some sad middle management job and try and control people over the internet instead, this is why my presence here irks so many people
@Pequod There's an easy solution to that problem. You post all the "stupid" questions and answer them yourself. The next time someone asks a "stupid" question, we will close those as duplicates, so no one gets any free reputation from answering stupid questions. :-)
@Pequod and you're doing what, sitting in an anonymous Internet chatroom, trying to convince others of your point of view that is totally subjective to your own perspective and perceptions? Is there really such a difference?
@ArtOfCode _ I agree. Some questions seems silly, or are simply seeking validation for their views, but if those answers help someone (the OP, or some future reader), then it's worth answering it
@Pequod - dude, i'm at work. SE helps keep me sane
The poor questions are reinforced by the reputation-hungry posters. Like that little number by your name means anything. It's amusing to me. I want to find out why. Why answer such stupid questions and reinforce the notion that they should be allowed here. Then there's forums within forums about whether or not a certain thing should happen on the main forum. No one cares, and I find it fascinating that it continues to happen
One can look at it from another perspective. For a moment, let us accept that "poor" questions and "rep-hungry" answers are a problem. What would a solution look like? Do you simply beat everyone with a big stick every time they answer a "poor" question? Who gets to decide if a question is "poor" or not?
@Pequod You have not, directly, insulted anyone. That's true. You have annoyed plenty of people, you have sniped at people, you have baited them into arguments. And if you keep at it when you've been asked to stop, you're going to get banned again.
> "Bae," Urban Dictionary says, is an acronym that stands for "before anyone else," or a shortened version of baby or babe, another word for sweetie, and, mostly unrelated, poop in Danish.
@Pequod If you keep saying something, and I don't like it, and ask you to stop, then continuing to do so in direct contravention of my request is disrespectful. The rule around here is be respectful, to everyone.
@enderland Ok, that's more reasonable. I was getting the impression "he called me bae, so he should be banned". Without context, it makes just as much a sense as banning someone for calling you "dude" or "Sir".
@Pequod Run for the next election, I will vote for you. :) What would be a good campaign slogan? "No more stupid questions"? Nah, that doesn't have a nice ring to it. Can you think of something else?
@Pequod You know, a messiah like you shouldn't be fooling around in chat or meta. You should be guiding us stupid people on the right path in the main site.
It's amusing that I've been accused of potentially scaring away newbies when the reception I have received here has been discriminatory and hurtful. I only hope all new members have the strength and perseverance as I do
@Pequod Your strength and perseverance might find better use in welcoming newbies by answering their questions rather than bickering with stupid people like us here.
@Pequod While that question is certainly not one of the greatest puzzles ever, I still do not see why it is a problem if someone asks that question. Not everyone knows email etiquette as well as you do.
@ArtOfCode Really? It was my understanding that a question should be able to get answers that resolve a reproducible problem or provide educational value.
@ArtOfCode I was joking, of course. It does get a bit irritating when such "what ifs" make it to the HNQ. What if President of US is cloned? I mean, seriously? :o
@Lilienthal Yes, that seems about right. The site description even alludes to it.
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@Pequod I've just skimmed the last couple hours of the transcript. You seem to think it is ok to call people "bae" or "babe" or "broski" or (insert patronizing term of your choice here) unless they tell you not to. You have it backwards, and especially when talking about the workplace. Unless you know that it's ok, don't do it. In many workplaces this would get you in trouble; it's not professional and it's just not appropriate. Leave it in junior high.
tl;dr: Should I recommend that I not be involved in a project if my advice is consistently ignored?
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I'm an electrical engineer with 20+ years experience in a highly specialised domain. I'm the only person with subject matter expertise in that particular domain within the company, and...
@enderland Your answer here seems to have some formatting issues and a missing phrase ("I have raised issues to Manager X, but they are currently unaddressed. I don't know "").
@AndreiROM I'm not sure if it's an improvement. The post is so long that it makes sense to add a TL;DR even if it's just the title again. People can gloss over that sometimes and in this case the title is very descriptive and concise.