I am a quite sensitive person who takes everything kinda seriously. Also, I tend to overthink about things especially about relationships. I’ve always been worrying if my friends like me or not or when they “seem” cold or angry I get really nervous.
I get this when my friend doesn’t answer my te...
Can't help it. Ban me again. I just confessed to transgressions from 42 years ago elsewhere. Since then i've tried to be good and have succeeded for more than 30 years.
I sit down with everyone from authors with Pulitzer Prizes to sidewalk sleepers with shopping carts.
The professors get editorial advice. The sidewalkers get lettuce (money), now that i have some again.
In person, everyone sees me as equal (and shy), because i've been there. Here, i get banned, because i'm truly awkward.
Thank you, @Tinkeringbell! Have you sat with homeless/penniless persons who have the most amazing verbal skills? Along with deteriorated physical capability?
@humn Ehhh... nope. I knew a few people who were poorer than us way back when (and I think they're still not fully recovered but we lost touch after our music club disbanded).
But they weren't penniless or close to homelessness.
. . . speak? Lurkers? . . . you can't do any worse than i . . . bring up any topic . . . inside my shell i'm a know-it-all who can't think of a better place than here to bare it all . . .
. . . you don't even have to speak perfect English, though if you want to learn it . . .
. . . Puhun Suomi syntymästä lähtien (my natural language is Suomi/Finnish) . . .
. . . and I teach researchers from every corner to write technical English . . .
(My Mother, again, grew up in Los Angeles, CA, Rockwell City, IA, and Stanford, CA, and taught me more than i'll ever know.)
@avazula, you are a hound who pares the branches! Please let me roam.
(and nice visual, by the way)
@Mithrandir, you're really here?!?!?! I'd be glad to meet you at puzzling, er, Troll. Was just about to slink there anyway.
Interesting discussion topic based on the recent meta about deleted comments. One of the things the OP mentioned is "This management over comments is a very different experience from many other communities on SE."
This got me thinking
Should IPS (by nature of being a SE site) provide the same user experience as the rest of the network, and if not how different is it reasonable for it to be?
@Rainbacon Normal, he is a regular user of SO and many technical websites so most posts address something relevant to the answer while on IPS it's a bit of "I agree/disagree", chatty comments, commenters addressing other commenters, etc
But comments are third-world citizens like Jeff Atwood says, I don't know why people get mad because their comment was deleted
@Rainbacon We try to fit within the system. But every site is different... You don't have to back up your code on SO or mathematics on Physics with personal experience either ;) I'm kinda sure that if we're going to be unreasonably different, SE will just pull the plut on this site or step in and tell us to be less different ;)
So far though, I feel this site is sticking (out of necessity, perhaps) closer to what SE sites are meant to be: Comments for improvements, answers backed up... It's just difficult communicating that up front to newer users that are used to other sites.
@scohe001 That was an interesting read, to be sure. I found it particularly interesting that the author uses adblockers (and installs them on his family's computer) and yet, still seems surprised/disappointed that people hated ads in the terminal. Maybe they're willfully ignoring the fact that a major reason to use an adblocker is to supress the intrusive attention-grabbing behavior of ads?
I'm part of a MediaWiki site called D&D Wiki. Among others, one of our longstanding issues in the public eye was our failure to label clearly enough that certain pages are categorised 'Homebrew', as opposed to 'Official'.
Consequently, we pushed through a solution wherein all pages that are not ...
Idk I mean for me the reason I use an adblocker is because of the skeevy/intrusive practices that are employed with ads. If I had a guarantee that every ad was just going to be an image and maybe some CSS, I'd be fine with it. And it sounds like that's what they're doing there. It's just a print statement with no strings attached
The attention-grabbing stuff is annoying and a bummer, but it's by no means my first concern. I'd be willing to accept it if it meant going back to a time when ads weren't so malicious and scary
I agree about the intrusion, but I don't really want ads in my terminal because they are going to get in the way and make it even harder to parse through the output in the event of an error.
I saw that this question may be more suited to this stack than some of the others so I'll try it. -- I used to be a freelance website designer/developer ( first under a Business Name and then under My Name Freelance ), but moved away from it to concentrate on writing an online music magazine. I've enjoyed doing the music magazine, and fully intend on continuing to…
@Tinkeringbell I believe this question as already been posted here at least twice by this "same" user (they are using the same language/words, but it might not be the same account)
Those comments makes me want to scream, arg! It's like they think I have anorexia because I find it fun. OF COURSE IT'S DANGEROUS, WHY DO YOU THINK IT'S CLASSIFIED AS AN ILLNESS???
I was thinking about it but I'll see tomorrow. Your comment might do the trick and I don't want you and ava do be deprive of rep when those answers really deserve it :)
Marked this comment as caught correctly (tp). Currently marked 1tps/0fps. beep boop My human overlords won't let me flag that, so you'll have to do it yourself.
@Ælis Bet it's the same people that go "of course he's not crazy, he's just doing it for attention".
Tom Cruise in Rain Man.
When he was Ethan Hunt. In MI2.
@Rainbacon Meh, people develop impressions pretty quickly. I wouldn't read too much into it. Eeps is of course more restricted, but it's not like continental drift or something. Just what they happened to notice and they're comparing one case to zero.
Of course, mathematically, that's infinitely different.
@scohe001 It's happened more than I care to admit. I open a question "alright, I'm feeling happy today. Let's spread some love." Halfway through the comment, I'm more like a devilish gargoyle choking on a hairball, and once I'm done, I'm like "Screw it, I'm going kitten hunting. Who's with me!"
@Mithrandir You make less sense than none.
Or maybe "fewer" sense, I dunno which Fowler would approve more of.
@EmC Did I mention I also lose some seconds of sleep over it. Once the day is over, I'm lying on bed, suddenly thinking "Oh man, I sounded like your stereotypical white mustache eye-patched frowny thick-eyebrows general in that comment".
I work with three colleagues in a small open space. We're developpers. We've been colleagues for almost a year and got to know each decently.
I'm a shy, socially anxious person that don't have many friends. I would appreciate making new ones. I get along well with most people. So far, I maintain...
