So let's chat about the StackExchange community real quick.https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/996833004789141505 …
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A healthy community requires white people to be shot down by Black people on Black issues; straight people to be shot down by gay people on gay issues; men to be shot down by women on women's issues; etc. That is a minimum bar.
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And kicking out the moderators who take a stance against those voices.
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See the ominous moderator comment posted on my answer here after the swarm of comments from concern trolls got deleted. Hope I'm just reading too much into it but... https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/14277/not-having-to-explain-my-reasons-for-wanting-to-keep-my-last-name/14301?noredirect=1#comment59121_14301 …pic.twitter.com/rTxKE8oR6K
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Yes. Yes you are reading too much into it.
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I'm not particularly upset with this moderator (tho maybe some ppl whose constructive comments were deleted as a result of late-coming concern trolls might be)...
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...but asking for an answer that many people already found helpful to be strengthened after deleting a bunch of stuff, rather than asking trolls to stop trolling, seemed at least mildly ominous to me.
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Eh, not really. Interpersonal Skills SE has some pretty strict rules about backing up your answers; that's orthogonal to whether or not a given answer is highly upvoted or not. In this case, the trolling *was* stopped (and the people involved may have received a mod warning)...
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...but that the concern "this answer may not be sufficiently backed up" was expressed in a less-than-acceptable manner doesn't necessarily mean the concern itself is invalid.
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That really was not the commenters' concern. Their concern was that strategies on shutting down sexist microaggressions had a platform.
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You'd think! But Joel and Jeff would rather publically wring their hands screaming "Oh whatever can we do" while continuing to completely give free reign to the abusive moderators. Never even seen so much as 'not cool, man' when one of these assholes steps completely out of line.
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there's at least three things wrong when I cursorily read through this: 1. Jeff is no longer an employee, 2. there's no such thing as free reign 3. it doesn't further your point to stoop to insulting people...
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