I might have said this in my post, but at least as a new user, I really didn't go to chat much
so the main thing that's slightly concerning would be people participating less, instead of not outright participating
of course it might just be that I was geniunely here to look at interesting questions, and not as much for socializing... :P
less on chat / community stuff
like I remember asking a minor meta-ish question on stats.SE, and the response was really slow
but the impression I got was that they were reasonably active
wait, sorry, is that the impression you got of my views, or of the discussion?
got it. (sorry, I just wanted it to be clear that I mostly saw it as a potentially slightly alienating thing that could have slightly negative effects, and that I have much, much better things to accuse sexism of.)
and I'd hate for a decision to be made on the wrong grounds
I'm slightly not really sure why I care more about the problems of sites like Christianity or Biblical Hermeneutics, since there (at least with the first), I could chalk up things to user demographics.
But I suspect it boils down to both personal preferences and the fact that those sites are slightly less recreational and have broader purposes (perhaps I could use it as a starting point for academic work, for instance), and so it's a lot more damaging - at least imo - to see irrelevant and slightly pushy comments within actual answers to questions.
Comparatively, it's just a lot harder to make stuff like this happen here
if only since I don't frequent questions for series I don't watch, and since, at least for now, we don't see people append stuff that's geniunely divisive (e.g. people's arguments about the political correctness of FMA) here to their posts, at least not without more context
@ton.yeung: I'm pretty happy with them. The most I've seen is probably that question on white-washing in One Piece (?) a while ago, and "opinion-based" really covers things
in any case, I need to run to an appointment, so I'm off