Life is not a game of chess where you can think several steps ahead and predict the narrow possibilities and adjust for those too. Life is a game of chess with cats running across the game board and sometimes stealing the pieces.
@waxeagle The problem, at this point, is that a not-insignificant portion of the community has lost faith in the moderation team for reasons that the mod team seems to feel are irrational. This will poison any interaction that the community feels strongly about until either reconciliation is made or everyone involved leaves.
And this twitter thread gives a rundown on the origin of imposter syndrome but doesn't provide sources; it would be a good source for search terms if I had the time right now.
My recollection is the justification was they liked the idea of people who didn't care who wore what makeup as long as they could cogently discuss the merits of various backend implementations.
(aside: on a recent staff survey at my place of employment which asked what one thing $corporation could do to better support staff, I suggested encouraging a socialist revolution)
I like Jacob's suggestion that streaming games should use their safety tools in the open as much as possible, to model good behaviour and make it easier to actually use them when they're needed.
Handy rule of thumb for interacting with people who aren't machines: If the question you've asked is "Is this okay?" anything except "Yes" should be treated as "No."
over simplistically, they said something mildly (imo) offensive and we told them that we don't operate like that here, and then they got moderately upset about it.
And when we continued to mildly try to remind them that we don't operate that way here, they got aggrivated.
@Yuuki Elves go to the West, and just keep going. Every year, the Great Elven Migration completes one more circuit around the planet. The phenomenon is of great amusement to the other peoples through whose territory they travel, though of considerably less amusement to the elves themselves, owing primarily to the fact that for elven children, the "are we there yet?" phase of development lasts about fifty years.
@vicky_molokh I'm absolutely shocked this happened. Shog9 was the linchpin of the moderation community. We all learned a lot from him, and he was the ultimate go-to for almost everything.
the fact that (apparently) some of the mods claims against Monica were confuted by the Lounge transcripts leaks does not help. Again, don't have much details, but users are claiming that things that were reported to have been said weren't present at all in the logs....
> "I love science, but if we’re talking about fiction rather than nonfiction, science isn’t enough to sustain a narrative. Science fiction uses science to illuminate the human condition, and that’s what makes it worth reading and writing, in my view."
It's just the repeated adding of heads where nobody asked: "so if everyone's doing the thing we're asking them to do for this hat, and trying to maximize their chance of getting the hat with no concern for anything else, will site processes continue to happen as intended?"
My point, which I don't appear to be making very well, is that I will react more to people around me, rather to strangers across the globe (yes, this chat-room counts as "around me" - my direct personal experience)
