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Andras Deak

00:58

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 23 hours ago, by Shog9

In other news: just signed my paperwork confirming that I'm eligible to work in the US and like money put into specific accounts. So I'm officially no longer unemployed!

V2Blast

Nice :)

V2Blast

01:27

also:

Sharing our first quarter 2020 community roadmap

Teresa Dietrich on February 25, 2020

As we work to improve our relationship and communications with our users, we want to share with you our community roadmap each quarter, so once every three months. Even though we are halfway through this quarter, we wanted to share with you what we are working on currently. In March, we will share our roadmap…

relevant bits:

> Elements of the improved question asking experience that was shipped to Stack Overflow last year will be rolled out to the international and network sites this week and next. This new UX provides a better question-asking flow that unifies the traditional and guided (“Ask Question Wizard”) modes and works equally well for users of all reputation and experience levels. The goal is to help users write better questions and set expectations once their question is posted. This should positively affect the question asking experience across the network, as well as give us a solid platform for pot…

> Next month we will release our Follow Questions capability (something that has been discussed by the community for years). This feature will allow users to “follow” or “unfollow” questions. You’ll be notified on new activity for questions you follow and have the ability to silence questions you no longer want to be notified about to reduce the noise you receive in your inbox.

9 hours later…

doppelgreener

10:18

@V2Blast I'm looking forward to that.

13 hours later…

Jeffrey Witty

23:20

I notice when we reference "those 2 cartoons", She-Ra is the only one ppl mention

A fault of the modern culture? or is it age related?

trogdor

I mean between She Ra and He Man i personally very much prefer She Ra

The new one anyway

Jeffrey Witty

there is a new 1?

BESW

She-Ra's the one with a really good modern reboot, and not a notoriously bad theatrical release?

Jeffrey Witty

where is my cryosleep pod, bring me to it

@BESW that movie was pure gold, 2nd only to beastmaster 3

BESW

Yeeeah, if you've bought into the "snowflake" narrative as a generational flaw, this chat may be difficult for you.

Jeffrey Witty

23:25

I thought the moedern era just couldnt allow a hero named "he man" due to our culture flip

@BESW My generation is also flawed

like all ppl are

BESW

That's not what I said or meant.

Jeffrey Witty

Oh that i lable the whole generation

Big strokes, fine details my friend

I do not think every member of a certain generation will all be the same (that would be madness). I just find the frequency of the trait is more prevalent as generations progress

BESW

"Snowflake" is a dogwhistle for re-framing marginalized and disenfranchised peoples' struggle for representation and equity as instead them being privileged and overly coddled people attempting to be "special."

Jeffrey Witty

like "boomer"

or "Gen X'er"

But i digress, forgive me. I did not intend any negitivity (other than my intended negitivity, which was of a diffrent type)

I will not use that term

Remember my location, we dont have disenfranchised peoples' here

or freedom of speech

NautArch

It doesn't matter where you're from, you're here and we try to Be Nice to all.

Jeffrey Witty

23:38

@NautArch it was not my intent to give "hate", honestly

at most disapproval

NautArch

Let's just move on.

V2Blast

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Jeffrey Witty

odd name

for the room

@V2Blast so am I in the vipers den, or am I the viper?

doppelgreener

This is our overflow room for conversations that have overstayed their welcome elsewhere.

V2Blast

(I believe the name was based on Tavern on the Meta, to differentiate this chat from that one.)

Jeffrey Witty

23:51

ok, so welcome is an open term

goodguy5

@V2Blast speaking of odd names, remind me yours again?

Jeffrey Witty

Where is this site based?

this is in the states

user15026

Like...geographically, according to hosting?

Jeffrey Witty

to the ownership of parent co

doppelgreener

I am heading off shortly, but I need to make something clear: RPG.SE chat rooms are used by marginalised individuals, including queer and trans folk. I'm one such individual, for example. Calling people's interests snowflake stuff is not going to be okay—BESW has expressed the harm that term represents.

Jeffrey Witty

23:53

so I understand the countries laws used to govern my words

doppelgreener

Similarly, we ask you be mindful when you may be causing others harm or distress. That's a precondition of your welcome in our chat rooms.

goodguy5

@JeffreyWitty It's not about laws, it's about empathy

Jeffrey Witty

ok, how would I voice a concern that leads to that context?

so I dont hurt anys feelings (I do not wish to)

like the there are 2 but mentioning 1 is taboo

how do I call out the taboo, politely

or am i expected to remain silent about that sort

if so thats ok

MikeQ

What about a particular taboo are you trying to address?

Jeffrey Witty

I mentioned, there was She-Ra and He-Man, but I have seen the dift to NEVER mention the "he-man" all references tend towards the feminine

I questioned if it was age based or cultural

But thats a small example

goodguy5

23:58

I have not witnessed the same trend

Jeffrey Witty

I did not witness the assination of JFK, it still happened

MikeQ

There are too many Skeletor memes to suggest that modern internet culture is dismissive of He-Man

Jeffrey Witty

lol

MikeQ

Nyeh! Bumblers!

V2Blast

You can find the Code of Conduct here. But as several others have already expressed, it's not a matter of finding a way to stay just within the rules, it's about empathy and understanding. When someone expresses discomfort with how you've phrased something, generally it's best to apologize, and try to understand the other person's point of view - instead of being dismissive or condescending.

Jeffrey Witty

23:59

Its very minor

BESW

There's no taboo, and assuming that's why you mostly hear about She-Ra is something you'll need to examine: it's as simple as the fact that She-Ra has an awesome new franchise reboot on Netflix so people are talking about it more than they're talking about a franchise that hasn't had publicly visible material in a long time.

goodguy5