@jonsca ahh! cool! Btw, how can I tell what is the most viewed question on our site? Because I think I might have made the pedophelia question our heaviest hitter with this reddit spike.
There should be a way to look right on the site itself, but something like "activity" measures something different. There has to be a way to do it on SEDE
@ArtemKaznatcheev why shouldnt you talk bad about another person publicly? equating them with spam? if you honestly need an answer to that question i would suggest you read up on empathy training and maybe get some help otherwise
@caseyr547 I believe that you are detracting from the quality of the site by producing a large quantity of mostly poor answers.
To check if this is just my opinion, or if others believe it (beyond the indirect evidence given by the fact that you have such a low number of upvotes per answer), I discuss it with people I trust in chat.
It's okay to stick up for yourself if you feel like you've been bullied, but you've gone well above and beyond that on multiple sites now, to the point that it's obnoxious and, frankly, to the point where it's disturbing positive use of the site.
I think we've again reached a point in which you fail to take any responsibility for your portion of the difficulties you've been having.
While our approach could at times use a bit of fine tuning, a lot of people have tried to help you understand the existing culture of the site, and you've bit their hands off.
I am not comfortable answering what 'wows' me, as I am certain my word will be misinterpreted despite my habit of saying exactly and precisely what I mean
@Amaterasu that actually is an empathic statement because...as you point out you may be precise and exact....your ability to affect the same idea in another person is limited... then the behaviour of that person even if they receive the same idea often is unpredictable because everyone is different.
jonsca has a lot of points especially on meta so by psychoanalysing and reporting everything she said i will prolly be reprimanded or maybe banned for a while....but she didnt have my best interest at heart
the words she used were all pejorative
"We are all very proud of you" a untrue statement made to mean the inverse
"you've gone well above and beyond that on multiple sites now" i've reviewed your history...your being watched and have a bad repretation...another statment to make me feel bad
no no @Amaterasu i'm describing the emotions ellicted from my conversation with jonsonca
and how it was completly inapropte for her to say those things
"to the point that it's obnoxious and, frankly, to the point where it's disturbing positive use of the site." an insult using the negative words obnoxious and disturbing...then overall calling me a bad social element and insinuating that she was going to try to have you removed
I work 70-90 hours a week (and paid for 38), teaching, tutoring, giving shows to show the 'magic' of science, as well as researching in the fields of skin cancer research and radiation detection..... definitely not insignificant
@caseyr547 this isn't a school yard. We aren't here to be nice to each other. Above all else, we are here to contribute quality content to the website and to learn. When somebody doesn't do so, it is important to point that out to avoid a degradation in the community standards.
At the risk of being reported, I will sy that I was always taught and believe that how we feel is entirely up to ourselves - no one else can make us feel anything
@caseyr547 I was stating that asides from my non-willingness to be subjected to be reported for misunderstandings, the other reason I left is to stem the tide of my useless contributions
@caseyr547 this is a website you choose to participate in, your contribution is judged by the existing members of the community and expressed through comments and votes
@caseyr547 I get called everything under the sun - everything from "useless" to a "pointless lazy piece of you-know-what" - why? because I am a teacher; I get called "failure", "insigniifcant" "pointless" and "freak" because I do voluntary scientific research, but can not get into academia... I do not let those words get to me, by choice - I control how I feel about me, no one else can... the sticks, stones and words can not harm me - because I won't let them
uh i was called a racist and banned from chat
for saying
"ArtemKaznatcheev yes but seeking to remove the negative element from society is unhealthy you might as well say lets get rid of all the black people
what you perceive as negative is not universal"
Its clear that I am saying "social purit...
@ArtemKaznatcheev: Thanks for asking; I'm glad if my contributions have been valuable (not that I've doubted it). I've conveyed my share to the moderators about our single user problem (10 flags marked helpful so far, if my count is right, and another submitted just now on the above meta-question). I think everyone who's been watching this site enough over the past couple weeks has some awareness, and we know I'm not the only one reconsidering the site because of this.
That being said, I've got other concerns both on and off the site, and even if I didn't, my level of activity lately wouldn't be sustainable. Caught a financial miscalculation recently, so I gotta get a job or move ASAP, and probably redirect my focus after that too either way.
Definitely hoping to keep my eye on things here, but my time for contributing is going to be pretty limited, and any time I have to spend helping with all this quality control headache we've got right now is going to come out of the answers I provide, so I'm afraid there's no getting around the fact that all this ^ is harmful.
We're all (OK, maybe "mostly") capable of contributing in much more positive ways when we're not preoccupied with stemming the tide of bad input. I'm not saying I say I have a solution of course. I haven't learned enough about the moderator job yet to know what solutions are available, and I don't have time to figure it out on my own right now, but something definitely needs to be done here.
I can't say I don't envy the job of the moderators here; I sincerely wish I could help more, and had the power to do so beyond flagging and downvoting, for whatever that's worth ultimately. I don't envy the difficulty of the job for those who have to handle it right now though. As just another user, I'm bound to leave it to them, and would like to help if I can as such, but won't be working on it actively while there's so little I can do. I hope it all works out here, and I will stay in touch.
I am truly angry about user caseyr547 trolling my question about an experimental design.
How to ethically research the effect of expert lies on lay people
My question states clearly right at the beginning that I am giving an example and that the real study will be about something else.
In the ...
i've run out of flags so i'm going to start meta posts
Kyler Brown gave a comment as an answer it should be removed.
How to make diagnosis of these symptoms using Pet scan, fMRI, and EEG?
Andrew Prentice's answer is homophobic and silly as there is No relationship between asp and homosexualit...
Many parts of the fetus brain begin showing neural activity before the senses that feed them are sufficiently developed to provide actual sensory information. In other words, it is unlikely that spiking activity in the brain is initiated by the senses. Some of the cells that become sensory organs...
here you drew a conclusion based on a paper that didnt actually relate to the topic at hand
it was well liked with a +5 but it could not answer the question really
How does the very first spiking activity begin in the fetus?
and instead you answered
the connections from the eye to the visual cortex form before the retina is developed enough to respond to light.
why would a baby be able to see in a womb?
given that is a non issue
how does that disprove that tactile or auditory sensations are also random
moreover rat and human gestation are sufficiently different as to require a disclaimer
if you want to prove all the first neural activity is random you have to prove a lack of correlation between brain nerve firing with all the other nervous systems.
@caseyr547 except it did answer the question. Which I quote: "I imagine all spiking activity is initiated by the senses and internal oscillators. Am I right?" I gave a specific example to justify a 'no' answer.
You should also know, that your mass downvoting is completely futile
I am truly angry about user caseyr547 trolling my question about an experimental design.
How to ethically research the effect of expert lies on lay people
My question states clearly right at the beginning that I am giving an example and that the real study will be about something else.
In the ...
This is partially for future reference, and partially for the moderators to evaluate. This is the list of answers that have been downvoted over the last day. I am writing it down here so that I don't forget them after the votes are automatically undone by the system for serial downvoting:
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@shog9 a number of us have pointed out to this user relatively early on, that his behavior was not in line with site norms.
but that user continued to spam low quality content through out the month. As can be seen from his 92 answers (which I believe is the second most number of answers on the site) with very low number of votes (indicating that the community does not like his answers); the median vote total is 1, for example.
Although the votes are anonymous, the user deannoynimized himself by announcing ahead of time in chat and leaving a comment on almost every single answer. Also, of those answers only one has ever had a downvote before.
@caseyr547 If I went through all of your answers on Stack Overflow and voted on them according to my own interpretation of their usefulness, would you consider this a fair evaluation?
@caseyr547 If I went through all of your answers on Stack Overflow and voted on them according to my own interpretation of their usefulness, would you consider this a fair evaluation?
@caseyr547 considerably more time than it would take to familiarize one's self with concepts as trivial as perception, psychology and computational modelling then.
well i have a general education thanks to being forced to take many classes from various departments and then my own personal desires to consume every thing about psychology
@caseyr547 which has equipped you to provide useful critiques of not just an answer in an unfamiliar discipline, but dozens, in the space of an afternoon?
those are not particularly useful critiques. Rather, they're the sort of lazy evaluations folks like to post when they can't be bothered to be specific - often because they haven't actually bothered to more than skim the post they're commenting on.
@Shog9 by the way, while you evaluate caseyr's expertise, I would like to point out that the vast majority of his 92 answers given in the last month rely almost completely on and copy-and-paste from wikipedia.
uh i was reading in chat because people were talking about me not that i seek to defend myself at this time and i happened on this
Is pedophilia a sexual orientation or a mental disorder?
Definitely some of those comments by Ofri Raviv are dangerous supporting pedophilia and need to be removed...
@caseyr547 call me dense, but I don't see how the edit made any significant difference. This is one of those changes where you would be expected to not fight a war over a crumb of bread.
anyway, I'm out of time here; it's Saturday and I have things planned. I strongly recommend you take a break as well, @caseyr547; whether or not your intentions were good, you've ended up creating rather a large pile of stuff the mods will have to sort out now, and they're not going to be very appreciative of losing part of their weekends to this either - probably a good time to not stir up more.
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For future reference, you could probably have created and participated in one meta discussion before trying to tackle half the site; it would've made things a lot easier on everyone involved, including yourself.
uh i was called a racist and banned from chat
for saying
"ArtemKaznatcheev yes but seeking to remove the negative element from society is unhealthy you might as well say lets get rid of all the black people
what you perceive as negative is not universal"
Its clear that I am saying "social purit...
I am truly angry about user caseyr547 trolling my question about an experimental design.
How to ethically research the effect of expert lies on lay people
My question states clearly right at the beginning that I am giving an example and that the real study will be about something else.
In the ...
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