Penelope's real letter to Julian says "Many times I tried to find you through Miguel, but he told me that you didn't want anything more to do with me."
Nowhere in the book does it explain why Miguel, who wanted the best for his best friend, would have told Penelope to stop trying.
I don't unde...
I am interested in reading Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed as it has scenes of the plague in Milan which are very relevant to our current times. I don't have time to read the entire novel so I am interested in reading some excerpts.
I am especially interested in reading the scenes whe...
@North Yes, unfortunately the other two both stepped down some months ago. (In fact, none of the original team of three is now a mod, and two of them quit SE altogether.)
@North I'm thinking about it. My main reservation is depriving the site of an active non-mod user, someone who can vote to close/reopen things without hammers (on this site in the past, I have sometimes VTCed just to put something in the queue and get the community's opinion, even if I'm ambivalent about closing it) and who can express opinions without the weight of a diamond.
@NapoleonWilson Not sure what you mean by "look too eager". It's not as if I've ever tried to hide my enthusiasm about this site.
I'm hoping Tsundoku and/or Gareth Rees will nominate. They're both great SMEs (subject matter experts) and have done an incredible amount for this site, including in moderation aspects as well as posting.
@Randal'Thor Wasn't Gareth Rees a moderator here before? Or does it just feel like it because of how frequently he's around?
@Randal'Thor That is very true, and your presence as an active non-mod presence in PSE is invaluable. However, given the current situation of things, it might be good if you run. You do have a lot of experience, the most reputation on this site by far, and (I assume) good trust amongst many of the users here.
@North That's a consequence of the LGBTQ debate last year, when I decided to hide most of the sites on my profile. Especially after reading this post by Mith.
I also asked myself whether I should continue as a mod on Language Learning SE. I eventually decided to stay on. But we lost one other mod during that period.
Temperament is not the type of argument I expected from a user who has been involved in a lot of moderation tasks and in editing question to save them from being closed or deleted.
What I mean by "temperamentally unsuited" is that I don't like ticketing systems — moderation (as I understand it) involves dealing with a bunch of task queues, like the flag queue. I get more than enough of that at work.
I'm happy to try to save a question if it grabs my interest, but moderation tasks don't work on that kind of basis
@Skooba "We"? Images without a text alternative are inaccessible to blind users. I am not aware of a mechanism to attach a text alternative to an image in this chatroom. (And nobody describes the images they post here.)
@North I am not aware of images being prohibited, if that is what you mean. I just think that they take up a lot of vertical space, so you need to scroll more to see older messages.
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@Skooba At maximum, yes. First 3 were appointed, then Hamlet stepped down leaving 2, then Galli was appointed to get 3 again, then the other two stepped down late last year. So 3-2-3-2-1, overall.
@GarethRees Fair enough, I respect that. I noticed you're not that active on the meta/moderation side of things, although what you do do there (editing questions into shape, getting the help centre updated, analysing meaning questions) is always valuable.
As opposed to Tsundoku who spent his first few months mostly editing tag wikis ;-)
@North Well, the activity level hasn't gone south, we can say that at least.
@North Should it? It doesn't seem too broad or speculative to me. Granted, I'm a layman who never read Hamlet, but it looks like the question is answerable within the scope of this site
@Gallifreyan Okay, well perhaps not too broad, but does seem like it would generate a lot of discussions, which isn't exactly something that's supported by SE, is it?
Maybe if the question was reworded a little bit to say like "what are some specific actions/quotes/references made by Hamlet that shows he is misogynistic" or something
@Gallifreyan Yeah, another mod from PSE feels similarly when it comes to closing. I'm not exactly familiar with all the logistics of this site which is why I decided to ask rather than just commenting right away
I don't know though, it still seems like a poor question. I'm not saying you should close it, but the question feels like it came straight out from some hs English assignment.
Hamlet is a very famous Shakespearean tragedy, so it's not like there's not a bountiful number of resources already available.
@Gallifreyan But part of the design behind SE is to generate good questions that provoke a thoughtful response. Perhaps it's not fair to compare it to S/O, but S/O encourages users to do their best to solve their problem first, and to show proof of effort that one did.
I'd like to see deep, thought-provoking questions as well (especially if I could answer them), and we have quite a few of those. But it isn't inherently bad to have some of the more basic, reference-type questions here and there. And SO is by far the biggest proof of that
Given how many of my basic coding queries led me if not to SO, but to some other tech SE site
And the good thing about SE in that regard is that we can vote the better answers up, and the less better answers down, and make the posters improve their answers
Something most other websites aren't flexible enough to do
but see, Hamlet is a very famous Shakespearean play. It is a bit harder to understand if you're not familiar with the language, but you could certainly outsource to different websites. After you've done that (and given some quotes yourself) and then ask the community, you're more likely to generate a unique and deeper answer
If you say, "Clearly, Hamlet had his issues with the women in his life including Ophelia (provide example and context). Is Hamlet misogynistic? I have some quotes that might support this stance (insert quotes) but are they isolated or are there further evidences?
If there are higher standards for answer quality, why not at least some of that for question quality?
I am interested in reading Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed as it has scenes of the plague in Milan which are very relevant to our current times. I don't have time to read the entire novel so I am interested in reading some excerpts.
I am especially interested in reading the scenes whe...
Clearly, Hamlet had his issues with the women in his life including Ophelia. Would you say Hamlet is/isn't a misogynist?
