Starred posts

BESW

Nov 12, 2019 11:27

Possibly related is this very useful Twitter thread about the difference between "neutral to good" vs "neutral to bad" relationships.

3

SPArcheon

Oct 28, 2022 14:53

SPArcheon

Mar 11, 2021 12:09

2

BESW

Mar 11, 2021 02:54

Queering Fantasy

►

2

vicky_molokh

Oct 25, 2019 16:44

95

Q: To reach out: on Monica, the Lavender community, and the future of the Stack Exchange network

Over the past weeks, the uproar has been vast, spanning the new Code of Conduct, Stack Exchange's conduct over the years, and more. Gallons of internet ink have been spilled by everyone involved, including myself. If you don't know me, I'm heather. I am a moderator on Quantum Computing Stack Exc...

3

SPArcheon

Oct 19, 2022 17:24

SPArcheon

Oct 19, 2022 17:23

SPArcheon

Oct 19, 2022 16:48

SPArcheon

Oct 19, 2022 16:03

SPArcheon

Oct 19, 2022 15:46

SPArcheon

Oct 19, 2022 15:46

user15026

Oct 22, 2019 15:23

Use the stickers that make the most sense to you, be willing to change the stickers if enough changes that those stickers get itchy and weird and not comfy.

3

V2Blast

Oct 18, 2019 03:35

3

Xirema

Oct 17, 2019 22:07

@vicky_molokh What would those actions be at this point? Because I can tell you now, reinstating Monica wouldn't cease the ongoing harm. Her dismissal might have triggered this whole mess, but reinstating her just rectifies her specific grievance with the company.

3

Rubiksmoose

Oct 17, 2019 18:57

@GcL That makes it sound like I'm the Thanos of SE voting lol

3

Gwideon

Oct 17, 2019 18:40

@Xirema I'm glad we have you. we need someone so resilient to advocate for us

3

Rubiksmoose

Oct 14, 2019 19:26

NB/trans people have to live their lives fighting society to get recognition. It is highly likely that they are put into situations like this all the time.

3

GcL

Oct 10, 2019 18:28

When you stare into the metas. The metas stare back into you.

3

user15026

Oct 10, 2019 16:42

If someone expressly tells you you are making them uncomfortable, the correct response is "I'm sorry" and then not doing the thing that hurts them, as much as possible.

3

Rubiksmoose

Oct 6, 2019 21:46

114

Q: An apology to our community, and next steps

I’m David Fullerton, Stack Overflow’s CTO, responsible for the product, engineering, and community teams. I joined Stack Overflow in 2010 because I believed in the vision and mission of Stack Overflow. I wanted to be a part of building a community where programmers come together to help one anot...

discussion featured moderation code-of-conduct

3

nitsua60

Apr 14, 2017 02:15

5

Pixie

Feb 11, 2016 02:02

The discussion is just very messy and heated right now, and we've only just begun to sort out various factors contributing to it. What I care about right now, a lot more than the RAW tag, is communication. That's the big, gnarled root of this problem, and until it's addressed, I don't think we can move forward.

6

Andras Deak

Dec 27, 2020 23:32

episodes predating The Beard don't count

2

Bardic Wizard

Nov 11, 2020 18:25

On the Star Trek discussions that have been going on: a post on why DS9 is good to watch in a pandemic that I liked and actually surprisingly agree with

2

kviiri

Nov 10, 2020 10:20

I'm personally somewhat conflicted over it. I mean, I do lend high value to statistics, but I think we shouldn't forget the fact that Silicon Valley testers tend to have problems with their sampling. Y'know, like forgetting black people exist when training models to recognize a person.

2

lisardggY

Sep 1, 2014 06:03

So, we're talking about roleplaying in Not A Bar and about cleaning products in RPG Chat?

7

mxyzplk

Apr 24, 2019 02:50

@V2Blast I concur, and I'm just going to proactively say on behalf of the RPG.SE mod team that we have absolutely zero tolerance for any anti-woman or other political shenanigans on this site. Don't spread it here because we'll be even faster than core SE to act vigorously upon it. Even here in Not A Bar, it doesn't belong here.

3

doppelgreener

Oct 15, 2020 14:18

Should we leave NAB as NAB, and make a new TRPG Overflow room that is the new "opt-in space we move to when it needs to be separate from (either) main chat"?

2

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

Oct 15, 2020 12:30

@NautArch YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL STABLES.

2

doppelgreener

Oct 8, 2020 17:08

"You are specifically causing upset for someone that has asked you to stop" is a present good imperative to stop that conversation.

2

doppelgreener

Mar 21, 2019 19:22

If meta is like the chambers of parliament, chat is like the pub its members pop off to after work.

3

Rubiksmoose

Mar 21, 2019 14:13

For some reason the community really wants to tag RAW, but I can't for the life of me see why.

3

BESW

Mar 21, 2019 14:13

There's an argument to be made that [raw] connects experts to questions, because facility with the [raw] lens is a skill.

3

BESW

Mar 21, 2019 14:08

I'd like to see [raw] blacklisted so we can learn from what people put in its place. We'd probably wind up bringing it back but we might be able to do it better after observing what happens in its absence.

3

Derpy

Sep 17, 2020 15:44

in Sugarcube Corner, 20 mins ago, by Derpy

2

SPArcheon

Jun 22, 2022 16:01

BESW

Aug 15, 2020 03:40

Jaymee Goh talks about the discomfort of having people assuming which of your names is "real."

2

Carcer

Aug 4, 2020 15:46

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica thee/thou/thine/"tha" are already common in Yorkshire/Lancashire dialect

2

Carcer

Aug 4, 2020 15:39

@PeterCooperJr. generating confusion appears to be the primary design goal of the english language, so mission accomplished

2

NautArch

Aug 4, 2020 15:39

@PeterCooperJr. "parasite" is always a safe term :P

2

GcL

Jul 29, 2020 18:59

It would be exceedingly unlikely to find a deep sea microbe that's a pathogen to humans. Microbes are specialists for the environments they live in, and humans are pretty dissimilar and hostile in an entirely different way than the ocean floor.

2

NautArch

Aug 9, 2017 16:46

as things progress, I do hope that Guam and our known friends there (@BESW and @trogdor) stay safe.

4

SPArcheon

May 24, 2022 12:06

in Sugarcube Corner, 38 secs ago, by SPArcheon

kviiri

Jul 7, 2020 07:28

This might be relevant to someone's interests here: The New Order: Last Days of Europe, a wildly-expected alt-history cold war mod for Hearts of Iron IV, is releasing on 21 July. Or so they say.

2

SPArcheon

May 20, 2022 08:51

SPArcheon

May 19, 2022 16:15

Derpy

Jun 19, 2020 09:28

2

doppelgreener

Feb 26, 2016 02:37

My position is this: tags describe things the question has said. They're not a stand-in for the question not having said something. The proposal is that we ask for clarification when the question hasn't said something so that it's self-evident the tag should be there. All of that seems perfect. Is there more to it?

5

Andras Deak

Jun 9, 2020 15:01

Kudos to Radcliffe thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/…

2

Pixie

Feb 11, 2016 08:21

The practical, actionable advice I'm giving the moderation team is to think more about the way they interact with the community and the effect that their words can have (and have had), even when unintended, keeping this in mind. I also advise you to acknowledge that things have been mishandled, not simply to say "we're not perfect" but to say, and mean, that you're going to work to keep it from happening again.

5

Not a bar, but plays one on TV

Not a bar, but plays one on TV