StackExchange wants to fix its community. Well, sometimes that means letting the controversy stand and taking an official stance in support of the marginalized voices.
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
And kicking out the moderators who take a stance against those voices.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @RichFelker @EmilyGorcenski
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
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker @EmilyGorcenski
Yes. Yes you are reading too much into it.
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @_ArtOfCode @EmilyGorcenski
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)...
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
...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.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker @EmilyGorcenski
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)...
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
...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.
2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @_ArtOfCode @EmilyGorcenski
That really was not the commenters' concern. Their concern was that strategies on shutting down sexist microaggressions had a platform.
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker @EmilyGorcenski
Had a chat with a moderator there. This is an exaggeration - it assumes that your answer is objectively correct (which may or may not be the case), and that the commenters were acting in bad faith. The reality here is somewhere in the middle.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Commenters that triggered comment wipe were clearly bad-faith. Several arrived at once, all strawman complaints. I'm not assuming my answer was "objectively correct", just sincere, intended to be helpful, and no worse in correctness/citation than typical answers.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.