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10:56 AM
@AnnaLear - hello! The "What can I do when getting “Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account” question is cranking up comments again, this time on the main question body rather than on the answers. If you could work your magic.
 
 
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1:39 PM
@tombull89 Thanks for the heads up. :) I cleaned up the comments for now.
I hesitate to just lock the entire thing cause that makes it harder to edit or do anything else, really.
 
jrg
Protecting probably wouldn't do the trick either.
 
 
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7:32 PM
Shog9 on March 22, 2012

In “Why Can’t You Have Just One Site?” Jeff wrote about the rationale for creating three sites instead of one, and the process for determining where a question belongs:

Is it really so hard to figure out which community you belong to, and thus, where your question belongs? Ask yourself this:

what is your job title?

which community do you consider yourself a part of?

what are you trying to accomplish?

You can use the same mountain to go downhill really fast on snow — but it’s plainly evident to the participant which culture they consider themselves a part of, “skiers” or “snowboarders”. …

 
8:22 PM
Just finished installing Mass Effect 3. See you all in 6 to 8 weeks...
 
 
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10:13 PM
How can I reword programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/141071/… so that it's not "not constructive"?
@YannisRizos ping
 
psr
@AndrewGrimm - Um, "Are there any scientific studies about sexism in the ruby community?", maybe. It's hard to imagine anyone having an answer other than their own personal experiences for any wording I can think of. And one person's experience wouldn't answer the question, except as part of a poll, and polling questions are expressly off topic.
@AndrewGrimm - It's hard to imagine anyone actually knowing the answer to your question.
 
@psr couldn't people cite articles or blog posts written by experts?
 
@AndrewGrimm So...3 blog posts mentioning sexist behavior for Ruby, 0 blog posts for Smalltalk? What does that prove? Still seems random and poll-driven to me.
 
psr
10:29 PM
@AndrewGrimm - If they exist I suppose. You might not have the question closed if you specify objective evidence, but I'm not sure what your chance is of getting an answer. I guess Yannis can say if he would still close it, but as originally worded if he didn't a lot of others would. Even if the question became constructive it would still be debatable whether programmers are the experts on sexism in a community, even a programming community.
 
user20683
It also invites discussion
 
user20683
and is subjective
 
psr
@AndrewGrimm - This can't be much help, but I did recently read an article about sexism among PHP programmers. I don't have a reference, but it talked a lot about "brogrammers". Searching that might help answer your question, though I would suggest closing your eyes and pretending brogrammers don't exist.
 
user20683
what one person may find sexist (me as my tolerance is very low) others would find just fine
 
@psr @SteveJackson @WorldEngineer Thank you for your explanations.
 
psr
10:41 PM
@AndrewGrimm - Sorry, it was a interesting question and I would like to know the answer. I didn't down vote it, though I would have voted to close.
 
user20683
@AndrewGrimm agreed, I think sexism in the workplace is a very worthy topic for discussion but that's the just problem, there aren't really "answers" for it
 

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