I updated the [Grief] tag description, hope its okay
From: Questions that dealing with grievances. The deceased can be an acquaintance, friend, family, or pet. To: Questions about interactions surrounding grief and death. The deceased can be an acquaintance, friend, family, or pet.
@Mithrandir Heh, it's just that I finished @Noon's drawing, but they're not there yet so maybe I'll wait until they're here so I can show them at the same time :D
Hey English-native pals, I have a question for you
Might be a weird questions, but I'm really confused. A good female friend of mine (I'm male) recently suggested we should cuddle, after we talked about how both of us feel rather lonely at the moment. That actually sounds good to me, I'd really enjoy holding someone in my arms again since I'm pre...
@avazula If I had a color printer, I would have printed that (but since I only have a black and white printer, I'm just gonna print the previous version :D )
@avazula Well, I give some of them to you already, I'm gonna check if I can find some other ones (but I can already tell you that "Autisme pour les nuls" is absolutly useless in the case of adulte woman with autism)
@avazula This comic might interest you. It's about Temple Grandin, a famous woman with autism who did a lot of things for animal protection (and when you are finished, you can also read the other comics, all about wonderful women, that are linked at the bottom of the page before the comment section)
@Magisch I can't promise that this isn't all you're going to get though... Which, in a sense, is disappointing, but may be the best because it focuses on moving forward instead of looking back
@Tinkeringbell It just confirms that the first time this happened wasn't just unfortunate timing but that the development is very much driven by external outrage over community feedback
which means it is pointless to try and fix anything and better to just try and have fun
Why do we have meta anymore anyways? Clearly it doesn't mean anything. Hundreds of well researched posts making arguments with thousands of combined votes and thousands of comments can be sidestepped by a 140 char tweet with some hyperbolic outrage
I know you're worried about our self-governance. That's not in any danger. I.. would rather (probably badly) compare this to SmokeDetector causing trouble, or the comment bot spewing too many comments into the main chat. The people responsible for those bots are also trusted to make sure things get fixed, even if that fix is crude.
So, it may be necessary to turn SmokeDetector off, or prevent the comment bot from posting in the main chatroom until regexes are fixed. Those fixes are heavy-handed, but they're meant to give people time to fix the problem. As Tim explained on MSE, IPS titles *…
IPS was taken out of HNQ the same way someone turns a rogue bot off.
@Magisch I agree on that. It's deeply unfair if the decision was indeed made upon review of a tweet from someone who didn't even care to come and see what it was about.
@Magisch Can you link me to a meta post about IPS titles appearing out of context on HNQ, which leads to people perceiving IPS as an unwelcome part of the network, and that either asks a.) for the regexes to be updated to exclude certain topics from IPS or b.) to exclude IPS from HNQ entirely?
@JAD I block HNQ at work with Adblock. And should someone says something about the content on my monitor I'd be very upset. I believe in a trust contract, I do a good job, you do a good job, don't bother knowing the details about what I do
This is in the face of hundreds of ignored good ideas and well reasoned feature requests. Apparently, the only way to effect any change on SE this year has been to generate a moral outrage that makes the company look bad
To clarify, I absolutely support a profile option to disable HNQ, or even disable questions that are not related to programming (I might not want to get sucked into politics while I am working, period), but to declare an emergency and disable it for everybody because someone on twitter who doesn't even use the site is a puritan who tries to see hidden subtext in everything they read? That's just silly. — forest5 hours ago
and worse. Nobody on the community was contacted or even told until after the fact, but they had plenty of time to respond to self righteous twitter outrage
@Belle-Sophie There was a tweet about IPS question titles showing out of context in HNQ, and mentioning that out of context those titles can seem unwelcoming. So a dev reacted by pulling IPS out of HNQ entirely, but the choice to do so wasn't communicated properly to the community.
It's so frustrating that your well reasoned and researched arguments going through all the proper channels do nothing at all, but being rude and inconsiderate apparently works
who knows, maybe we should all start tweeting at SE staff to make FRs
@Magisch Erh... I really don't like Twitter. Someone called out one of our users and calling them discriminatory whereas they'd have realized OP wasn't discriminative at all should they have read the question!
Heh. The only thing in my Twitter? "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
@Magisch There's plenty of people writing plenty of interesting threads that do allow for nuance. Just remember that if it doesn't fit in one message, write two.
@Tinkeringbell There is plenty of people writing thoughtful and nuanced posts on 4chan or even 8chan too, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't discount anything that comes from there.
I do have a twitter account, a new one. Deleted my old one. I don't follow people, just companies, that could provide me with relevant updates. My ISP, the ferry, my favourite online game...
It's kind of nice to be able to open twitter when my game doesn't work and see "We're having server issues, currently working on resolving them. ETA 9.30".
@Magisch No. One of my reactions was that Adam should've posted their reply to the original poster of that tweet then, and not to the account that retweeted it. But that doesn't change the fact that we're out of HNQ, for reasons, and that going on and on about 'but it was a tweet'... is not going to help the discussion move forward.
@Tinkeringbell I think the thing that would help the discussion move forward would be a heartfelt apology from staff with concrete steps about how they'll involve the community over external non members with an agenda from now on.
Or you could also disconnect the network cable from his pc when he is at lunch, put some clear tape over the pins, and reconnect the cable. Try not to laugh when he returns and franctically calls the network guys trying to figure why his internet doesnt work... — vikingsteve1 min ago
@avazula You have all my sympathy. It's been years since I'm telling myself "you should go check yourself for endometriosis" but I only just had the courage to take a rendez-vous (english accent here :P)
@Tinkeringbell I understand, you're a mod, you're kind of bound by this. Normal users aren't, however.
Maybe some of them decide that a site that blatantly does not care about their input no longer needs some of that free labor that keeps it going. Maybe someone in SE's management will notice this and take note.
@Belle-Sophie idk, but IUD is what's making me suffer so much rn (I got to discover I'm allergic to hormonal drugs and therefore can only bear copper IUD. It works perfectly, but my periods got even worse). I'll tell her so she can ask her physician though. Thanks for letting me know :)
@avazula Well, hopefully I will have something that helps after this gynecologist meeting (maybe something that removes the period entirely, that would be the dream :P )
@Noon that's a shame :/ Oh, and I'm sorry for that ableist ranting you had to go through. I talked with the Twitter, appears they didn't even bother to read. I was so mad.
Take a look at that entire profile, and you'll see that it's not looking like something that should be taken very seriously (I'm saying this at a risk of doing one of those online character assassinations I so dislike seeing other people do... but I'm sceptical here)
I'm so utterly sick and tired of people who are clearly not autistic themselves treating us like we're children and need protection from a genuine question because it might become uncomfortable.
@Tinkeringbell So, here is my question with 4 NHQ words: "How can I tell my new coworkers that I'm vegan, autist, lesbian and queer so that they won't be offensive toward those communities when I'm around?" :P
Looks like we have our first would've-hit-HNQ-and-been-completely-ruined question! That cuddling question's answer is too perfect too. I almost want to give it a bounty
@Noon heh, thanks. trying to not make any assumptions about the wording there, but with the mention of "some questions are things we don't want in the list", I think it's important to clarify what exactly that means
as a side note... wasn't there a proposal for a sexuality.se at some point? did it get to a point where anyone talked about it showing up in HNQ?
See I'm really good at this "How can this sexist title be on my sidebar when I'm looking for programming questions? Describing a girl as inoffensive like she's some sort of object"
@Magisch haha, I'm just joking ;) as with most HNQ, it does explain itself in the question body, so hopefully the English mods aren't having too bad a time ;)
there was someone (seems to be a buddy of the original tweeter?) screenshotting a parenting.se title on that same thread already :/ so.. I don't think we need to add to it
