@Magisch If you're on SO and that shows up in the HNQ list, any reasonable boss is not going to go crazy over it. If you decide to click it, that's your problem.
I've just earned the "Warm Welcome hat", which is nothing more, nothing less, but a communist symbol of a system which killed millions of people and enslaved my country (Poland) for 123 years, then after the WW2 in 1945 did it again, not until the fall of USSR in 1989.
In Poland, promotion of s...
@Magisch that question is bound to be controversial and a good candidate to get a condescending reply "that is why we can't have good things"
Yet, I bet that if I changed my avatar to an Hindu cross (see Glorfindel answer) some mods would remove it or even suspend me just because it look like that other symbol.
@JAD Imho, it isn't. The tittle is purposely provocative but I don't think the OP really mean that SE is promoting anything. They are just advocating that the specific choice can be a pain trigger for some users.
Exactly as the April fool site was a pain trigger for some users - even mods I would say - that had to take the day off to avoid it.
@Hitodama It might benefit from an edit that makes it 'just' a complaint about the communism symbol and the hat, without the 'rhetorical question' of 'Is SE promoting this'....
> I've just earned the "Warm Welcome hat" and the red star on it looks like a [communist symbol][1] of a system which [killed millions of people][2] and enslaved my country (Poland) for 123 years, then after the WW2 in 1945 did it again, not until the fall of USSR in 1989.
In Poland, promotion of such symbols is prohibited by law.
[![Warm Welcome hat][3]][3]
I hope I don't get banned by this. It's just… I was really shocked to see it this morning. Can SE be more mindful of the symbols used when it's just about fun?
I hold the stack community to very high standards in everything from technical discussions to being acutely aware of cultural sensitivities. As a vegetarian and animal lover I found the 'Bacon' simply too offensive.
I'm keen to hear what the other stack<*>ians have to say.
Yeah, not helpful. I'm going to edit this, to be good faith feature request. IF it's rolled back, we can assume OP is trying to be rude and we can flag.
I’ve searched through blog posts and questions just about everywhere I know to look on Google and SE (which is still far from everywhere there is to look, mind), but I cannot find anyone mentioning this at all, which surprises me, because it seems like such an obvious question that I had expected...
nah, I think the gravity of the situation is different
I can relate to OP feeling a bit down when they see a site using a hat in a minigame ostensibly glorifying an ideology which has killed millions of their brethren not that long ago
@ShadowThePrincessWizard If an user put racist stuff in their profile, I expect the company to remove it. If an user has a plate of salami for their avatar... it seems less reasonable to remove it because someone is vegan.
@ShadowThePrincessWizard it is, and right now this is how the numbers are right now. Are we supposed to do things one way or another because in ten years an entire different group will be offended?
It seems like closed questions are now shown as [closed] instead of [on-hold].
Is this by design or a bug?
Here's an example from Drupal Answers:
This question was closed 1 hour ago, but it already shows as [closed]. Usually it would be [on-hold] for a while before being closed.
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my water bottle is currently one of my iced tea bottles
it's an array of plastic bottles which I regularly fill with mint tea which is then left to cool down and subsequently refrigerated, for maximum mint tea consumption
I have a big tupperware one for work, and another SO one for on my desk at home. The one I got last year had one of those collapsible straws, and I managed to drop it and have the straw break off.
@motosubatsu Thats good news because the one deodorant I've been able to find that works for me to effectively eliminate body odor and doesn't irritate my skin is aluminum salt based
@Magisch always happy to help.. IIRC the whole thing came from some initial lab experiments in petri dishes that never actually panned out in to the real world.
@motosubatsu I was gonna keep using it anyways tbh. A bottle of this costs like 2.49€ and it lasts for 2-3 months. And it just utterly cleans up BO, where I've previously had a lot of issues with not getting rid of it and had to drown myself in scent. This deodorant has no scent at all.
@JourneymanGeek Oh, IPS has some discussion of 'if we know from one question the user is on the spectrum, is it okay to write an answer to another question using this info'
We also had a bunch of questions that were basically follow-ups/all related to a bunch of roommates and problems with that, and users wanted to know if they could use the entire context to write bigger/broader answers ...
of course it matters, especially on the more subjective or socially based stacks
I know of several examples on TWP where remembering a prior question I answered or commented on was vital to being able to form a good answer, and ultimately what pushed me to answer
I do wonder if that's what's meant with 'knowing the user' though... they do talk about answering a lot of their other questions or even 'real-life-knowing-each-other'.
@Tinkeringbell Not good. It's good for the title to summarize the body (most of the time, when done reasonably). You've taken a title that describes the question and made it indistinguishable from our "Why do you stay?", etc. styled questions. I understand that people can click through and read the whole question and see what it's about, but the title accomplished that before your edit. Since you asked: it harms readability and should be reverted;
Then I'm halfway happy, I do admit I'm not great at writing titles. The comment by OP suggested it was about more than just knowing people so I edited accordingly.
Ehh, true they did comment about that; does it matter if they are doing research or their mum asked them. They also said to email them the answer. --- The person says stuff, but does it help ... [The additional information doesn't keep the question open, and IMNSHO it doesn't make me want to reopen it.] So, not really.
@motosubatsu indeed, but prior to today I'd given the aluminum salts thing a bit more credibility because I heard a lot of otherwise reasonable people talking about it and was cited at a study or two (which I didn't read tbh)
@Rob Hmm. Well, I do think it's nice to know I'd be answering a question because someone is doing research or just curious or wanting to know if they could do that... It might influence how I answer it!
What if they said they were a kind and happy person, that they gave to charity, and always told the tooth. (sic) --- Then would your become a disciple?
@Magisch yeah there were some janky studies done a while back - as is de rigour they got picked up by some media outlets (as well as some of the cranks) and got turned into "OMG Aluminium-containing anti-perspirants cause breast cancer!!!"
@Magisch There was an American study several decades ago that linked aluminium to Alzheimer's. They found abnormally high levels of aluminum in brain tissue samples from people who'd had Alzheimer's. But no other studies were able to replicate the results. Eventually, it was discovered that water involved in preparing the tissue samples had high levels of aluminium. Sorry, I can't be bothered looking for references right now, but IIRC the faulty study was done in Georgia.
@Rob Still. It looks like you haven't cast a close-vote yet. So either the question was good enough as is, needs more improving (then probably ask OP in here, hi @sepideh ) or in a comment on the question... Or it needs closing again. All of those you can do too.
I've just earned the "Warm Welcome hat", which is nothing more, nothing less, but a communist symbol of a system which killed millions of people and enslaved my country (Poland) for 123 years, then after the WW2 in 1945 did it again, not until the fall of USSR in 1989.
In Poland, promotion of s...
I hold the stack community to very high standards in everything from technical discussions to being acutely aware of cultural sensitivities. As a vegetarian and animal lover I found the 'Bacon' simply too offensive.
I'm keen to hear what the other stack<*>ians have to say.
It seems like closed questions are now shown as [closed] instead of [on-hold].
Is this by design or a bug?
Here's an example from Drupal Answers:
This question was closed 1 hour ago, but it already shows as [closed]. Usually it would be [on-hold] for a while before being closed.
