A small amount of backstory; I work at a small company part-time, helping with their IT/networking needs, as well as managing their database. They use an older, fairly obscure proprietary software that was previously managed by a man I'll call Tom. Before I was hired, whenever my company needed t...
We protect a lot of questions.
We have fewer that 1000 questions on this site right now and over 134 of them are protected. That's greater than 10%. By having so many questions protected, we are limiting who can answer these questions. I think that we should be removing the protection after some...
In a few days time I will be giving a valedictorian speech at my high school graduation. The teachers in charge asked me to show them my speech so I did. Just now a very different speech was sent to me with a title "amended speech". The whole speech is completely different from mine except a few ...
I'm an American. I moved to Israel. My Hebrew is OK, but I don't speak it perfectly. I also have... quite a strong accent. I'm trying to work on it, but it's there and fairly noticeable.
Sometimes I'm talking - in a public space - to some kids my age (15), and some kids a few years younger than ...
My parent's divorced when I was in college after 23 years of marriage. A couple of years ago, my mom took to online dating. The first person she "met" scammed her out of a million dollars and then faked his own death. I put "met" in quotations because although they talked for nearly a year they n...
Our Background
My girlfriend was born in Laos and is currently living with her family in France. Money has always been a problem for her and her family. Her parents both don't earn a lot and regularly ask her for "financial help". While they claim it's just temporarily, they never showed any int...
My problem is with my next door neighbor. His grandson (approximately 5 years old) lives with him part time and they have started setting up one or two nets on the sidewalk and kicking a hard ball. The objective of their game to get the ball in one of the nets. They often miss and the ball has...
TL;DR
I've changed my mind about doing a favour to a mate, it is not I don't want to do it, it is that I want to change the conditions (it is not economically related to me, but it means that the mate has to spend some money).
More detail
Some months ago, the inscriptions for a series of sport...
I want to start this discussion in light of two recent questions, that triggered some debate and attempts at editing:
Case 1
The question How to talk to my brother about a shared interest in pornographic furry material? led to a debate about removing pornographic furry in body, title and even a...
I teach a couple of classes this semester to predominantly college freshmen. I am a recent grad student that finished last May so I consider myself significantly older than the females in my classroom, even though I am frequently mistaken to be about a decade younger by most strangers.
There is...
I would like to caution people against censorship in these cases.
Whether people want to acknowledge it, or not, we're starting down a very slippery slope when we start editing out content that may make us a little uncomfortable.
Once we set a standard that it's ok to start editing to suppress...
Most people would agree that humility is a good thing. So why then is it considered a bad thing to force humility upon someone via "humiliation"?
First, you may want to re-read this meta about phrasing request.
We have agreed that phrasing request is off-topic. However, I believe that questions that asking "how to write" can be made on-topic by specifically making them asking about the guidelines of writing.
These are the recent question...
I'm drawing on several policy guidelines we worked up from the now-closed "Sexuality" site which I'm going to echo here (outside of how the post above was handled specifically).
When hosting a site that that might occasionally delve into frank and clinical discussions about human sexuality (or ...
So, recently my youngest brother (16) had a party of a classmate. Mom and dad did allow him to go, and he did just fine. He lived by the rules, he sent a message when he arrived safely and one when he started the bicycle ride back, was home sort-of on time. He only missed one rule: No alcohol.
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