What with all of the hubbub lately, I want to focus on asking one specific question that I think is at the core of the problem/drama: Is EL&U succeeding?
This is fairly open-ended and I think that is fine. The intent is to try and start locating things for us to work on or, at the very least...
@rest_day I have no idea, honestly. As MrHen says, this is not an issue that can be solved in one fell swoop. Sadly.
@rest_day I have just put the featured tag on a number of meta questions. They will now appear on the ELU front page, in the box on the right-hand side.
Stupid meta-tag formatting doesn't work, sorry for the additional pings.
Once upon a time the wife of my friend bought, by mistake, a combinatorial dictionary of English. She thought it was a regular d1ictionary. They gifted it (the book) me. I like this book very much.
Heh. My cousin had some problems recently with his laptop keys processing keys on the opposite side of the board, turned out to be a soda spillage. Annnd, I was just kidding, by the way^.
@rest_day Yeah, totally. Usually chat would work great for that but right now Meta is the best place. A lot of stuff is being said and worked out right now and real, true opinions deserve to be read by as many people as possible. The only place that can happen right now is Meta.
@MrDisappointment Yep; soda-spillage-keyboard exports usually end up in Russia
I'll have you know that an actual internal dialogue ensued when I was typing that, debating whether to use soda, pop, coke, other brand? Forget about it? et cetera.
Somewhere, someone is casually asking questions on EL&U. Someone else answers them. To them, no drama exists. To them, this was like any other Wednesday.
Which of the following options are correct?
[Some context] that is relevant to my employment with the company.
[Some context] that is relevant to my employment at the company.
I'm writing the following sentence:
Women lead uptake at XX%.
But a friend is saying that it should be written:
Women lead uptake with XX%.
Which one is correct?
First, I want to be clear that I have what I hope is a shared common goal with everyone on the english.se community:
I want english.se to be great.
Unfortunately, the current reality is kind of ... far from that. Almost every time I peek my head into the site, it's filled with puerile stuff lik...
I'd say either at or with (place of employment) would work in some cases, but not in (place of employment/university). I don't think those two questions are equal. @RegDwight
Jeff has also posted an apology (of sorts) in his answer to the explain-joke meta question. (I think it is... unfortunate that he chose to include a "but" in both of his apologies.)
There is a bit of a low-bar-to-entry to ELU: anyone who speaks English can probably come up with a reasonable-sounding answer to pretty much every question that can be asked.
The problem is, that reasonable-sounding answer could be utter hogwash. Even from a native speaker. Maybe especially from a native speaker.
Jeff sees the former point. I'm not sure he realizes the latter point.
@Martha Yeah, it looks like it mostly redirects to the other post, ya?
@Martha I think the frustration is more rooted in the questions that take advantage of the looseness of the format to ask crappy questions that gain reputation.
@restday Jeff's primary problem seems to be that the site is 'embarrassing his network' because embarrassing (to him) questions are appearing in the multicollider.
@MrHen well would removing the ELU feed be so bad? In fact, I'll go one further. Jeff should only put sites he thinks are 'reputable enough' in the collider.
What with all of the hubbub lately, I want to focus on asking one specific question that I think is at the core of the problem/drama: Is EL&U succeeding?
This is fairly open-ended and I think that is fine. The intent is to try and start locating things for us to work on or, at the very least...
Which of the following options are correct?
[Some context] that is relevant to my employment with the company.
[Some context] that is relevant to my employment at the company.
My relative is a fairly big academic and works at a university.
Is this correct? or should I have used in instead?
I'm writing the following sentence:
Women lead uptake at XX%.
But a friend is saying that it should be written:
Women lead uptake with XX%.
Which one is correct?
First, I want to be clear that I have what I hope is a shared common goal with everyone on the english.se community:
I want english.se to be great.
Unfortunately, the current reality is kind of ... far from that. Almost every time I peek my head into the site, it's filled with puerile stuff lik...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…