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8:58 AM
Anyone know what happened to fattie
 
@Twyxz are they gone?
 
Morning everyone
 
9:14 AM
@avazula Suspended
 
@Twyxz o_o
 
9:47 AM
But I'm nosey and want to know why :P @avazula
 
@Twyxz I'm guessing it's just the traditional cycle of that user.. make a nuisance of themselves until they finally do enough to annoy the mods into suspending them, rinse repeat
 
10:36 AM
@IDrinkandIKnowThings See also our own site's meta thread on cross-posting:
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Q: Is Cross-Posting Allowed?

Joe StrazzereIn a business where staff churn is costly, should I let employees lead and request their salary increase? Is a cross-posted question. It's interesting, perhaps on-topic, but it is specifically cross-posted. Is that okay?

@Twyxz And I'll refer you to this post:
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A: What did this user do to warrant a 1 year suspension?

Monica CellioFor privacy reasons, moderators and Stack Exchange employees do not reveal reasons for suspensions. If the user brings it up (elsewhere or after) that's different, but it's not for us to say. We don't like suspending people; we aren't going to then pour salt in the wound by telling the world mo...

 
@Lilienthal Thank you
 
 
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@SouravGhosh seems fine to me.. you are legitimately frame challenging the OP's question
 
@motosubatsu OK, thanks
 
seems fine to me too
this IS helpful as OP needs to realize that he/she can also feel unsafe despite changing team
basically, OP asks how to implement a solution, and you say that it's not a good solution because it may not be the actual problem
 
@Kepotx point
@Kepotx Right, yesterday we had a same situation
where OP resfused to listen to any advice
 
Also, it's truer on other SE network such as SE, but OP is not the only one to have this kind of problem, so a solution can be helpful to other people. Therefore, even if it won't help OP because OP refuse a particular answer/advice, it can help someone else facing a similar problem
 
1:10 PM
Ah, Fattie is gone for a vacation eh, no surprise. It seems the only one speaking bluntly who hasn't gotten one is Kilisi.

Kilisi stays out of the comments. Kilisi stays out of trouble. Be like Kilisi
 
@RichardU there's a difference between speaking bluntly (such as Killisi) and speaking egocentric drivel (such as Fattie)
 
@motosubatsu yes, the difference is tone. But tone is not content. Fattie does post good answers, if you look past the... showmanship? There's good advice in many of his posts.
 
@RichardU he does post the occasional gem of an answer certainly.. but when he's in one of his omnipresent phases there's reams and reams of unsalvagable junk
and much of it is essentially LOOK AT ME!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
@motosubatsu "I'm Mister Meeseeks!"
 
@avazula haha :)
 
1:20 PM
@motosubatsu that's what the down-votes are for. Basically, he rubs people the wrong way. So do I. Maybe it's because I'm an old fart dating all the way back to BBS sites and the USENET, but we always ignored the attention wh, ooops, forgot the word is VERBOTEN.
 
@avazula I am Mister Positive :-)
Greetings all
 
@MisterPositive Ooh, first time here, heh?
lol
 
@MisterPositive Greetings. I'm crafting an answer for Kilisi's answer on Meta.
 
How are you people?
 
I am doing great. Stupid cold is about kicked.
 
1:22 PM
@avazula my psychiatrist says that I suffer from significant tendencies towards sociopathy due to past trauma.
 
@MisterPositive yay! congrats
 
but other than that, I'm fine
 
@RichardU oh no! Do they (or you) know what triggered the trauma?
 
@avazula years of bullying, abuse, ostricization, et cetera. Due to that I cannot make more than superficial emotional connections to people. We're working on that though.
 
@RichardU i hope things will get better. I wouldn't be surprised to be diagnosed with difficulties to truly connect to people if I were to see a psychologist. Which I don't
 
1:27 PM
@avazula yeah, the autism made it hard to connect to people to begin with, and what I've gone through in this life is enough nightmare fuel to make my psychiatrist wonder why I haven't gone on a rampage. The simple answer to that is I don't care enough to do so.
I've also been doing enough NLP, and other things to substitute positive for negative. The quotes by Nietzsche and Coolidge are essentially my life's philosophies.
 
@RichardU I somehow recognize myself in what you're saying. One day I had a chat with a friend and we ended up talking about the trauma stuff that has happened to us throughout our lives. When I was done with mine, she just said "If I were in your shoes, I'd have turned to a basic b****". We could be gold for therapists I guess, except that for most of it I feel it's behind me already :p
 
It is my understanding that a person who goes through significant trauma can break one of two ways. Either you want to see the world burn for letting it happen to you, or you want to make sure that you do everything you can to keep it from happening to someone else.
@avazula one thing that kept me out of the mental ward was I ticked off the long list of things I was dealing with, then stopped, looked at him and said "I guess, given the circumstances, I'm not doing that bad." He thought it to be an accurate assessment and decided that I did not need inpatient therapy.
@avazula perhaps the most fruitless argument anyone has ever used towards me is "How would you feel if...."
 
@RichardU because chances are that you've already been through what they're about to make you imagine?
 
@avazula ..and they are only making you remember those.
 
@SouravGhosh true... that's bad.
 
1:49 PM
@avazula actually, to me, it's more like someone with a hangnail complaining to an amputee about how they can't use their hand.
 
@RichardU ahah, right. I learned through the pass of time that our suffering aren't marked on our faces and that most people have no idea, which is why they bluntly assume such things about others
 
@avazula which is why I find it highly amusing or annoying (depending on my mood) to get called "privileged", by people who haven't gone through half of what I have. I can say that with a fair degree of confidence that they have not, because I rarely see that term used by those not engaging in severe psychological projection.
I know people who have had it far rougher than I have, including a man from Africa who suffered such severe torture, that his right arm is permanently useless. For some strange reason, I never heard him complain about microagressions.
 
@RichardU You may want to consider breaking your answer into an answer and a question. You ask a question at the end that may warrant its own answer thread ( versus answers in comments ) -- FWIW
 
@MisterPositive good Idea, I will.
 
2:05 PM
@RichardU "for some strange reason" lol. AFAIK the more you've been through the less likely you are to complain about such things
 
@avazula yes, I find that I'm often perceived as being a monster because I can't get upset about unkind words, when I've personally witnessed human cruelty, and it's after affects on a level that would rather have not. So, I guess it is true that I cannot empathize with someone suffering from such indignities as being kicked about as microagressions, when I've dealt with people who have suffered physical and psychological torture. I simply can't relate to those grievances.
 
@SouravGhosh I have a T shirt from that avatar
 
@avazula Cool. :)
 
@RichardU Erh ... I'm on the other side of the spectrum for that, I'd rather feel deeply hurt by any word that seems to question or attack me. I'm (very sadly) incapable of welcoming critique.
 
@avazula well, I can actually relate better than you think. I can't empathize for the people who say "poor me", but I can for those who get combative. I can get combative if I feel I am being attacked. I've gone far too far in responses in the past.

I was dealing with a workplace bully, and got into his head and hurt him in retaliation, badly. That's the thing about having gone through these things, you learn how to do them. I always try to be measured in response due to that.
 
2:43 PM
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Q: What is the standard for mods stepping in and deleting posts?

Richard UInspired by the discussion on THIS QUESTION The answer deleted had a +17 and -21 for a total of -11 The following answers, by the same user, were rated as low, if not not lower What should I do about discriminatory notes on candidates' resumes made by my boss? How can I push back against a bo...

 
3:12 PM
anyone understand what is this?
 
@SouravGhosh I think they might be asking if the contract is legally binding at this point, but even if I'm right we simply don't have enough context to answer that
 
@motosubatsu OK, so it's not only me, the question is unclear in general....
 
@SouravGhosh yeah.. I suspect a language barrier might be in play somewhere
I've cast the final VTC and left a comment to see if we can get the OP to come back and clear things up a little
 
3:29 PM
It does look like they didn't finish the question, it's closed now.
 
@motosubatsu do you guys have a lot of users who seem to just post a question and then never come back to add clarifications / comments / accept an answer?
 
3:45 PM
@avazula yeah pretty common
 
@motosubatsu that's sad
 
it's not quite as bad as say Mechanics SE but it happens rather a lot
 
@motosubatsu TBH I didn't read all the answers I got from my TWP questions after they hit HNQ, because I didn't feel I was strong enough to see the controversial points people would raise at me and make me feel like a bad person
 
@avazula which is a shame.. but totally understandable
 
@motosubatsu I know haha
If that reassures you it also happened with some of my IPS questions
Especially one of them where I asked how to tell my coworkers to stop threatening LGBT people during work time
People were like "you have no right towards other people's opinions"
I was like "I just wanna work in a quiet environment"
 
3:53 PM
the big pitfall of questions hitting HNQ can be that you get a load of randomers coming in and throwing their two (monopoly) cents in
 
Exactly
 
your two TWP questions attracted an element of that.. but fortunately you got some good answers as well (both questions' accepted answers are good ones IMO)
 
@motosubatsu Yes, I feel that way as well :)
 
personally I can't stomach IPS any more.. I just find it way too hostile an environment
 
I should admit I rather quickly accepted those answers also to stop the incoming stream
@motosubatsu That's ... a strange one. I don't feel very well on TWP because I'm impressed by the specialists we have around and the speed at which they answer
 
3:56 PM
@avazula nothing wrong with that.. they were good answers :) I actually didn't bother answering either because others had already said what I would :)
@avazula there are some erm.. prominent users on IPS who loathe me for some reason
 
@RichardU You there?
 
@GregoryCurrie I am always here
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@motosubatsu Oh, I chose them (as) wisely (as I could) :)
 
Just want you to know that i didn't actually downvote your answer, I was just trying to head off you and the other dude going off at each other.
 
@avazula TWP has some very, very knowledgeable people on it - and they can be very quick off the mark. It's mainly a function of the sheer size of the site I guess
 
3:59 PM
@motosubatsu Yeah, I observed that tendency with you and some other TWP high rep users
 
Which kinda backfired, cause now @Ertai87 thinks I downvoted their post.
No biggie ;)
 
@motosubatsu I think too :)
 
@GregoryCurrie oh, that's a long standing mess that has been going on for some time, no worries
:D
 
@avazula haha.. you flatter me :) I wish I could come close to the genius of people like JoeStrazzare! And no matter how fast I am seemingly Snow always gets there 2mins before me :D
 
@GregoryCurrie you stop gaining any benefits to rep at 20,000 so I'm not irked by anyone DVing me. A few of us get a few mysterious downvotes every day. I just got a bump of +6 because they deleted someone.
@motosubatsu The foodies are coming! The foodies are coming!!!!
@avazula I've given up on trying to answer anything on IPS. Too stressful for me.
 
4:02 PM
@RichardU You got a bump of +6 cause someone got deleted?
 
@GregoryCurrie when a user is deleted any downvotes they cast are reveresed
 
That's pretty cool.
 
so you get the rep "back"
 
@GregoryCurrie ^^^^^
@GregoryCurrie yep, all sorts of neat things here. Welcome, BTW.
 
@RichardU Thank you. Feels mostly pleasant!
 
4:36 PM
Greetings everyone
 
@Nofel how goes your photography?
 
@RichardU I never did it since long time
 
@Nofel do it again, even if just a hobby
 
@RichardU yea, now I got driver license. I always wanted to go places to do photography
 
@Nofel if you're good, you can make at least as much as a photographer as you can as a programmer
 
4:45 PM
@RichardU check it out photos.app.goo.gl/opRribvFpnYqnuq5A
my first Photograph when I came to uk
and it was from iPhone,
and yea I edited into B&W coz I LOVE B&W
 
@Nofel you've got talent. Go for it!
 
that some of them.
@RichardU I will restart again, I think I lost my spark for it
sometimes I feel like doing it, that is vert rare.
and my memory card got lost, so i felt heart broken. It has amazing view of London Iconic pictures
and again I was told,u shld sell them online
 
@Nofel you just got the wind knocked out of you. Pick yourself up and start over.
Yes, you should sell them
 
My biggest mistake when I uploaded my few first pics, I was told "lol, ur watermark is too big"
I am very sensitive
I took it off and never again put it back
 
@Nofel never give much attention from people too timid to chase their own dreams. They soothe their own feelings of inadequacy by tearing down those who do.
 
4:56 PM
@RichardU photos.app.goo.gl/uVNao662Kbnze5ow7 that is from a moving car
and these are just photos from iPhone
It takes a lot to come back up
 
yeah... get back to work as a photographer. Follow your bliss.
 
after getting knocked down. Once I hired a model, a person I was dating was going do the makeup n provide studio and on shoot day, that person ditched me coz the model was all over me. so model wanted her money and I got some crap shots of her with her own crappy makeup
 
5:16 PM
@RichardU I got so much on my mind TBH
I do not see jobs related to me
I slip into panic mood but I try to stop it again n again
yes my knowledge is transferable to React (it is everywhere) but all they ask commerical exp of react which I do not
Either I can slip my way in, like fake it till I make it
or learn and do my own projects (even then I do not have commerical exp)
 
@Nofel another book suggestion: "What color is your parachute"
 
@RichardU the book I need is how to speak up to ppl who r loud, disrespectful or overstepping
sometimes my inner person wanna scream out to ppl who step over boudries.
 
@Nofel ah, that would be Richard U's book on "How to be an asshole, and influence people"
 
speaking of recruiters as well as family or friends
@RichardU haha, where can I find one.
 
@Nofel actually, any book on "assertiveness training" would do you well.
 
5:28 PM
Being at home I can do 5% of what I do
studying books, focus uniterrupted.
and some arse in family comes n r so loud that I cannot say and they cannot see they r in someone else house
I had to tell my wife to tell them to control the noise
I wanna be that myself
be rude enough coz that person wont understand "how to behave in someone else house"
 
@Nofel "Excuse me, I need to get things done. Please be quiet, or leave"
 
@RichardU I want to but cannot, just thinking and walking to someone make my heart ponder so loud that I loose my voice
It has been my problem
and if i do it my voice become aggressive, offensive quickly
 
@RichardU I'm disenganging now. I didnt mean to devolve into such a long debate.
 
6:14 PM
@Nofel You need to practice talking slowly when you get spun up like that
 
 
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7:38 PM
@IDrinkandIKnowThings whats spun
 
7:55 PM
@Nofel when you get agressive
 
@IDrinkandIKnowThings I don't thats the thing. my heart ponders too hard If I just think I gonna talk to this person
even just going and speaking to someone at a conference
or office meeting If I have idea and wanna share
I can hear my heart
 

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