The Awkward Silence

an explicit mention of the word suicide is not needed to infer that the OP needs professional help that we're not prepared to give.

@heather In some cultures, that is actually very common and normal. This is an international site.

@heather Using the word "suicide" doesn't mean that they are contemplating suicide.

@Hamlet Someone is asking for advice on how to be better at interacting with people... that's what we're here for. They are not asking for a diagnosis.

@heather I am managing this in the way I see fit. Both HDE and I have talked it over and I've sent it to the CMs to deal with. We have had questions that have been managed by the CMs immediately because of the content. I personally do not see any indication in this post that the user is suicidal. The post is also closed.

@Catija, @HDE226868, @John: Why in the universe is this question not locked!?

Somebody should teach Microsoft some IPS. They don't know about "consent".

I wrote an answer on meta explaining why I think this is so important here, if it's necessary, but please do lock it.

@heather We are not ignoring you. We've pushed it up to the CMs.

This is not something that you need to wait on the CMs for.

@Hamlet We can't be here 24/7.

@JackParkinson unfortunately, no one here is a professional therapist. Chat is not a substitute for therapy. For these types of questions, the OP should be redirected to professional help, not chat. Although I'm sure everyone here means well, without professional experience you might do more harm than good.

Meh. I don't have an account there

@HDE226868 @Catija @John congratulations on the modship! You'll make a great team and you 3 were my preferred choices :)

@Zizouz212 But I am not talkative. ;)

I've been told that we're all the "Chaos Monkey"... but I don't know that I trust that information.

Okay, so, what I'm getting at is that our comments should be tailored to OP's level. "I'm voting to close" should not be the first words they see. My two cents.

@NVZ I think that at this point we should be more concerned about fixing quality issues than about mucking up the front page. We don't have so many questions per day that going to the "questions" tab is that onerous. :)

I think that, as you said, tag are not hierarchical, so the Europe tag would usually need additional context anyway. That lead the discussion towards dropping it and removing the temptation to use that as "the" context tag, and reducing the use makes room for other, hopefully helpful, tags in the five slots allowed to a question.

And yet there are common aspects.

@Hamlet also, should it be nuked?

@Catija yep I agree - knowing the why is half the battle

@Hamlet Understanding why we do things is a problem people have.

We would likely close them as too broad.

@Hamlet ( -[tag] -[tag] ) in search.

I mean, I can be very blunt even after extensive "tailoring", because I find bluntness useful. You might be blunt for that reason, or merely because you've not taken time to file down the edges so to speak. Does that ring true?

@YvetteColomb I would like some space, please. I don't appreciate how you are acting towards me and I would appreciate it if you left me alone for a while. I am very uncomfortable and am trying to continue using this site but I am finding that very difficult. I don't know how to react to one very complimentary comment followed by a very rude one. Thank you for your consideration.

@YvetteColomb That sounds like an answer, not a reason for closure

@YvetteColomb so let's not accuse people of acting unilaterally when you also acted unilaterally. Like you all have experience with the network, you all know how meta works.

@YvetteColomb no. You, Catija, and Zizouz212 are all already mods, albeit on different sites. Which mean that in chat, your names are all blue and you are identified as being mods. Which means that y'all need to act like mods.

@SQB That's been on my mind. 'Country' tags don't work well. I've always preferred having [demonym-culture] e.g. [indian-culture] or [aboriginal-canadian-culture]

@YvetteColomb May I suggest that post just being "what do we want to call our chatroom feeds?"?

^^^^ And that's a key issue. I think many people think that "Oh! Yeah, I would do this" rather than "This is definitely relevant for the situation that the OP is in, and I can empathize with the question and the answer"

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@HDE226868 I think it's manual. But also, we get on average 5-6 answers a question (without HNQ), easily jumping to 20+ when we get to HNQ. Same reason why sites like PPCG, Worldbuilding, and Academia are on the HNQ list more often than other sites

> If I use your suggestions, how can I be sure that they will make my situation better? In order for answers to be helpful to readers, it's important that answers be more than just suggestions. Try to explain why the suggestion would be beneficial to the reader - in other words, discuss where you got the idea for the answer (experience, perhaps).

So... it might be good to start thinking about tag schemes.

@IntrovertedMetaMan. I notice that Extroverted Meta Man is a bit quicker than you.

Hey!!! My question hit HNQ!!! Wooooohoooo!!

about what?

Those names are weird though. They should fit the site theme

All I know is that if you want to change the name of the feed, you need to make a duplicate of it or something... we may have accidentally changed the name of one of the feeds for the entire network.

@HenryWHHackv2.0 Ugh. Why...

I'm pretty sure Gypsy just meant anthropologists prioritise emic studies. But they also do etic cross cultural analyses.

The study of culture is cultural anthropology. There's nothing relativist about that because no judgements are being made.

Sure. I wasn't planning on discussing it either :)