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Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
Burn the Internet

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Sex Skeleton
Aug 16, 2018

For when lonely nights turn bonely
I too am incredibly surprised that a website full of 15 year old obsolete answers to computer programming questions is having some difficulties finding moderators who are in touch.

xcheopis
Jul 23, 2003


https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/335713/how-can-we-resolve-the-current-drama-without-causing-any-more-harm-to-vulnerable

1st_Panzer_Div.
May 11, 2005
Grimey Drawer

Yes, except it seems like everyone's take is wildly different.

The Walrus
Jul 9, 2002

by Fluffdaddy

ShortyMR.CAT posted:

Holy ravioli I canta believe thissa happened! Meat ball meat ball !

meatball? ohhhhh meatAball

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
I;m thinking about thos pronouns.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
For some other fun, pop over to the arduino help forum and start asking stupid questions. It's like the saltiest stuff ever if you don't format your code properly.

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


From what I can tell reading through pages of "explanations" is that one of the main moderators refused to use "they" as a pronoun because it doesn't fit grammatically or they are religious

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

Fried Watermelon posted:

From what I can tell reading through pages of "explanations" is that one of the main moderators refused to use "they" as a pronoun because it doesn't fit grammatically or they are religious

In lieu of clicking any of those links I'm going to take this as the full, correct answer

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Fried Watermelon posted:

From what I can tell reading through pages of "explanations" is that one of the main moderators refused to use "they" as a pronoun because it doesn't fit grammatically or they are religious

That's what I got.

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat

Loden Taylor
Aug 11, 2003

Daikloktos
Jan 1, 2020

by Cyrano4747
Sounds pretty mundane. Ours had a secret spy ring and a contemporaneous socialist upheaval

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
i wonder if something like this happens on Facebook we'd see some kind of a global internet war :thunk:

Shamino
Mar 14, 2008

I am weary of loitering about Britain. There is much we could be accomplishing! Where hast thou been, anyway?
I wish stack overflow more would be purged fr. The internet

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin

1st_Panzer_Div. posted:

There's an absurd amount of drama there suddenly, the timeline roughly matching SA's drama, and like SA, trans bigotry is a part.

They are having mass moderator resignations, firing employees for violating not yet published code if conduct, and reclassifying their creative commons licenses.

Best I can tell it started in SEChristian, which I guess exists, and a mod being furious about not being able to call people the wrong pronoun.

From there honestly I can't make heads or tails of it, whether the company is using it to gently caress the community, is it very vocal trolls, no idea.

Is sechristian just some esoteric scripting language?

sudonim
Oct 6, 2005

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Is sechristian just some esoteric scripting language?

import module "God"
>>> Exception: "God" does not exist

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
Shat Overblow!!!!

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Chinatown posted:

Shat Overblow!!!!

Scat Overshart

Junk
Dec 20, 2003

Listen to reason, man. Why make your job difficult?
good i'm glad of it

ohnobugs
Feb 22, 2003


COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Burn the Internet

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

Sex Skeleton posted:

I too am incredibly surprised that a website full of 15 year old obsolete answers to computer programming questions is having some difficulties finding moderators who are in touch.

What, is there a site with more updated codewrangling?

counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.
I'm not sure which makes you a more pathetic perpetually online blight on humanity. Caring about pronoun drama on the programming site you moderate enough to quit in a huff, or caring about the pronoun drama on a programming website you have nothing to do with so much that you have you tell everyone about it elsewhere.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

counterfeitsaint posted:

I'm not sure which makes you a more pathetic perpetually online blight on humanity. Caring about pronoun drama on the programming site you moderate enough to quit in a huff, or caring about the pronoun drama on a programming website you have nothing to do with so much that you have you tell everyone about it elsewhere.

drama is entertaining

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Cum Overnut

Fruits of the sea
Dec 1, 2010

The crusty old dudes who care about posting in SO instead of just using it as a knowledge base are exactly the types who would make a big deal out of this.

DisgracelandUSA
Aug 11, 2011

Yeah, I gets down with the homies

Fried Watermelon posted:

From what I can tell reading through pages of "explanations" is that one of the main moderators refused to use "they" as a pronoun because it doesn't fit grammatically or they are religious

This was the gist of it. The author also didn't give any examples of how she can avoid using they and how it would hurt their writing, which I caused some side-eyes from me.

But being totally oblivious to the problems your squeaky-wheelness, no matter how logically sound your reasoning, is right up principled computer toucher forum moderator alley, so this is not surprising.

myDad
Jan 20, 2010

ce n'est pas ma mère
College Slice

Chinatown posted:

more like Shat Overflow

Atopian
Sep 23, 2014

I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.
Computer touching trains people to be obsessive about the exact form and content that they type.

Unfortunately, they are then permitted to continue associating with normal human beings, instead of being relocated to containment centres.

Small Gay Planet
Aug 2, 2019

by Fluffdaddy
oh no now undergraduate cs students will be forced to do their programming homework instead of copy pasting reams of bullshit and getting away with it what savage fate, what barbary

Fudge Handsome
Jan 29, 2011

Shall we do it?

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Isn't it obvious? The stack overflowed!!

it's overflew, dumbass

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james
Imagine suffering from imposter syndrome in your 50s. That's a stack overflow user.

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

SpaceAceJase posted:

Imagine suffering from imposter syndrome in your 50s. That's a stack overflow user.

Oh for sure, man.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

I've purchased some gris gris to deal with the stack overflow

xcheopis
Jul 23, 2003


SpaceAceJase posted:

Imagine suffering from imposter syndrome in your 50s. That's a stack overflow user.

ha ha ha who would ever do that, eh? ha ha definitely not me of course

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib
I deny myself the usage of practical resources to demonstrate to the world I'm not suffering from imposter syndrome. I'm a smart SA poster.

Small Gay Planet
Aug 2, 2019

by Fluffdaddy

xcheopis posted:

ha ha ha who would ever do that, eh? ha ha definitely not me of course

i like your avatar its v. Cute and Nice

grillster
Dec 25, 2004

:chaostrump:
The moderator question has already been answered in another thread. Unfortunately the answer is in jQuery.

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]
It’s a shithole where they tell you to reinvent the wheel instead of providing a simple solution when you ask about a problem.

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1st_Panzer_Div.
May 11, 2005
Grimey Drawer

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Is sechristian just some esoteric scripting language?

Best I can tell some pastor that may or may not have ever coded annoyed stack enough they let him open stack Christianity.

The drama starts with him having a melt down over "they". Which I get.

But now they're firing employees and a ton of mods are resigning in protest, and the pronoun stuff seems to be lost in the mix.

The computer touching bit comes in as the company is changing their open source licensing now, I think using the drama as cover but its hard to tell. Creative commons peeps are upset, but given how unpleasant most of those people are, the company could be fine and its transphobes using it as cover. Otoh corporations are pretty evil too.

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