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Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
1:18 AM
@EiríkrÚtlendi Anonymization of that user and their contributions. "Privacy Policy."
 
Eiríkr Útlendi
Eiríkr Útlendi
1:35 AM
@EddieKal That seems very misguided at best.
 
Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
1:54 AM
@EiríkrÚtlendi 100% agreed!
 
 
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Eiríkr Útlendi
Eiríkr Útlendi
5:34 AM
@EddieKal, I'm curious, is that a policy stated somewhere? If so, I'm tempted to file a bug report or at least start a chat thread about that. Over at Wiktionary, for instance, we also have users who have simply retired or even been forcibly blocked, but we never remove their username or destroy the record of what they did.
The MediaWiki folks have to deal with the GDPR in EU law, among other strictures, and keeping username records intact after a user leaves has never been a problem. On the contrary, keeping a record of their contributions is better for the reader and contributor communities alike.
 
Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
5:53 AM
@EiríkrÚtlendi One very very important thing to note is this is no Wikipedia or Wiktionary. The company owns and controls everything contributed to the network, including the chatrooms. By own, I mean they legally own every answer we write after hours of research, every word we type into a chatroom, and everything associated with every last site in the network.
I am prefacing what I'm saying next with this because 1. yes there is a policy and I think you can find it on Meta SE. I think they put out a notice of "Privacy Policy update" there not long ago. 2. When a problem actually arises, the company uses their policies to further their interests as opposed to the interests of the community. And this has happened many times. I could speak from my personal experience, but maybe this is not the time.
The policies are really something that serves the company's purposes, not the community's interests. The SE company has in various occasions stretched, disregarded, or acted in contravention of their own policies.
 
Eiríkr Útlendi
Eiríkr Útlendi
6:32 AM
Re: the non-existence of Wikipedia or Wiktionary, that's straying into semantic / philosophical territory that goes beyond any point I've tried to make. :)
Re: the corporations, yes. I brought up MediaWiki as a counter-example of a corporation running a similar set of user-generated-content sites, where the corporation doesn't feel the need to strip user metadata when the user leaves. This suggests that there is a legal approach to handling departed user contributions that is less disruptive than what SE is currently doing.
 
Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
6:50 AM
@EiríkrÚtlendi No, no, I wasn't trying to say they didn't exist. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant: StackExchange is no (not) Wikipedia. I was talking about SE, not the Wikimedia Foundation projects. I used "no" in an attempt to emphasize that IMHO StackExchange is very unlike Wikimedia projects. :)
"this" = SE. "This is no Wikipedia" = "SE is very unlike Wikipedia"
 
 
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kimi Tanaka
kimi Tanaka
9:53 AM
@By137 ありがとうございます。明瞭に発音する必要がありそうですね。
母音を。
色々お世話になりました。勉強になったと言う点で。
結局たまにポジティブな評価もしていただいたのかしら。
 
 
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Henna Gaijin user199525
Henna Gaijin user199525
12:29 PM
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goldbrick
goldbrick
1:41 PM
The "Rest in peace" in that post title made me raise my eyebrows, though. I don't know if it's supposed to refer strictly to the account and not the person or just emblematic of how loosely and blithely the phrase has come to be used these days.
 
Chocolate
Chocolate
一瞬お亡くなりになったのかと・・
 
kimi Tanaka
kimi Tanaka
確かに…。
オミクロン株が流行しているから大事じゃないとよいのですが。
 
 
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Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
5:19 PM
@goldbrick I also thought that should probably be edited out. Not sure what to change it to though. "Adios!" 「さらば！」
 
 
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Nameless
Nameless
6:57 PM
Four of my posts were downvoted in less than a minute some days ago. ;(
 
 
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a20
a20
11:53 PM
@Nameless that happens, some people are just having some issues and go on a down-voting rampage. If it occurs excessively there are systems in place to detect it and revert it. Repeat offenders can also be suspended. It has happened to me as well on occasion, down-voting sprees for no obvious reason or feedback, although that user has now been removed. Interestingly that single user stood for all but one of the down votes I had o_O

Anyway, it might feel a bit annoying, but you gain nothing from caring about it. Just continue to contribute, and people will appreciate what you do.
 

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