A bit much for a flag text, so...
It starts with New employee has offensive Slack handle due to language barrier
A manager asks what he should do about an employee not able to speak english properly and not able to understand his chat name is offensive and embarassing.
Final update, solved ...
Well the fact that someone went in and said Oooh new Chat room, don't think I have been here for Intervention yet. Made me look at the left side a bit more than usual :P
I don't understand why the rep requirement for comments on meta is this low.
In my opinion 25 would improve quality of comments.
But has the low rep requirement actually made the comments that much worse?
A Long while ago I proposed to raise the required rep on protected questions to over 1000 for answering and 500 for comments atleast. As on many sites hitting the rep cap on your first week happens more often than one would assume. Also I see no reason why someone with less 1000 rep should have the right to answer protected questions as protected questions often catch low Quality answers from this Group of users and dont even get me started on comments.
@M.A.R. Long Story short. I honestly think SE would be greatly improved if some things like this just got a massive rep requirement when any mod feels the need to do so
@RaoulMensink Well, it might be that sites like The Workplace earn you rep much faster than the average SE and that's the reason for your complaint about Protected questions. The only other site I see complain about this is ELU, not even SO.
@M.A.R. Like I said even in a low low vote rate site as SharePoint I have seen People hit the rep cap on their first week. Either they get upvotes for their question, answered and recieved a bounty question or just a really common Problem that got solved or improved
That being said protected questions more often than not are HNQ questions as such a new user will only be grabbing points not to answer the question or even just answering to be a part of it.
@RoryAlsop Mhm. There are two sides. Some people complain because HNQ produces lots of work and others shrug it off because HNQ is good entertainment. I used to be 2, then joined 1, then 2 again, and now I'm oscillating between the two.
@M.A.R. Yes, I do have an exceptional Memory being able to go back years and years with an mind blowing accuracy. Though this account aint that old I have been here longer than "most" might imagine :D
@RichardU thats definitly also true, many People seem to Forget that their "hard earned" rep is being tied to every SE site not just their parent site.
As joe-strazzere said in their comment here:
@Walle - your manager is hinting that you are spending too much time
on non-work stuff. So far, the only response you have is that "it has
many useful facts". If you can't do better than that, you would be
well served by simply avoiding Stack...
@RaoulMensink Yes, and the lovely thing about having an eidetic memory is that I remember all of the other stuff this joker has been posting. First he was a manager, now it seems he's a coder. I smell a simple troll.
@RaoulMensink yeah, editing out credit from Joe... not a happy thing.
@DoritoStyle a pronoun referring to a specific person with established gender was edited by that person to be specific. I don't see the problem. That's different from a case where the referent's gender is unknown.
So I guess Joe has seen the answer repackaging of his comment. I personally think it's poor form for a wholesale cut/paste without any expansion by the answerer to not be community wiki, but I don't think it violates any SE rules in its current form.
@DoritoStyle oh, that's what you meant about hiding your face. :-)
Yeah, It reached it's current form after some meta research, but after digging even deeper it seems that copy/paste isn't really considered appropriate without adding something novel of your own.
But at that point, the room had devolved into chaos and gotten a timeout again, so I didn't think it was worth continuing
Well, the first few comments he received basically accused him of malice, so that probably started the interaction on the wrong foot and made him defensive. I think cooler heads prevailed in the end though, so there's that.
Yep, but still, I don't think Jeff went in with the intention of stealing. After all, I only learned how to properly handle such a thing yesterday, I assume (for whatever reason) that copying from comments to answers was encouraged since answering in comments is strictly opposed in some exchanges.
Only after searching the meta did I come back with more knowledge
If I had received comments accusing me of intentionally stealing when I was trying to help I would have been crushed and defensive as well
@ChristopherEstep you did the right thing with that edit. A tiny additional thing you could have done (to make future auditing a little easier) would have been to use a meaningful edit comment like "added attribution". But it's pretty clear what you did even without that, hence "tiny".
@RaoulMensink the original post and the rollback violated attribution rules, yes. I meant that the post in its current form doesn't appear to violate any rules.
So I was reading about chat flags in the transcript this morning and I have to say that in all the time I've been over 10k (6 months?) I don't recall ever getting any flag notifications.
My boss and I were reviewing items in a bug fix list. One of the bugs was relatively low priority: the program is rarely used in the way that produces the bug, and there is a work around which avoids the bug in most use cases.
However, the boss upped this bug to top priority, claiming that it s...
re: boss pulling rank, I can kind of empathize with OP though, fixing something trivial for the boss that de-prioritizes customer needs isn't the employee's concern (it's the bosses), but it does indirectly affect your job security.
Or at least that's what it feels like and why someone might feel compelled to go down the line of thinking in that question.
Still, "choose your battles" is probably the best advice
my philosophy is that I ultimately do what I'm told. When it comes to a point that my objections are more important to me than doing what I'm told, I find new work.
@DoritoStyle Any time a gendered pronoun is referring specifically to me, I reserve the right to change the pronoun to whatever I choose. If a rule is invented to prevent that, that's when I say goodbye to this forum.
@MonicaCellio I saw the comment plagiarism and had to laugh. I guess everything that isn't explicitly against the rules will happen eventually... IMHO it would have been better form to leave a comment to me advising me to make my comment into a Question. Oh well, as long as there is attribution I guess...
@JoeStrazzere I would firmly oppose such a rule, and not just because we would lose you.
@JoeStrazzere yeah, it would have been better had things been done differently, but what can you do? Sometimes laughing is the best response; glad you could do so here.
Yeah, my company still hosts our own jabber/xmpp server. Unfortunately the entire development team has abandoned it for skype.
I can't say I'm very impressed with Teams so far, but I guess it's a small step above a self-hosted chat server (considering we're already on Office365
I can install pretty much anything I need and I'll say something for big bell, if there's a website I need to access or software that I need that's not on "the list" there's a pretty smooth process as long as I can justify it and my director approves (and ITSEC doesn'think it's evil)
I ask Manager tell me slack name not ok?
People say "troll"
I search "troll"
why "troll"?
I don't understand why the rep requirement for comments on meta is this low.
In my opinion 25 would improve quality of comments.
But has the low rep requirement actually made the comments that much worse?
As joe-strazzere said in their comment here:
@Walle - your manager is hinting that you are spending too much time
on non-work stuff. So far, the only response you have is that "it has
many useful facts". If you can't do better than that, you would be
well served by simply avoiding Stack...
My boss and I were reviewing items in a bug fix list. One of the bugs was relatively low priority: the program is rarely used in the way that produces the bug, and there is a work around which avoids the bug in most use cases.
However, the boss upped this bug to top priority, claiming that it s...
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