I am showing a female profile, while I am not female, but a true feminist (in terms @TimPost claims to be). You're dragging that completely out of scope IMO.
like, i personally don't care if someone refers to me as the incorrect gender. it doesn't matter to me. but... that's coming from me, a white male programmer, who isn't perceived as a minority in the field. where as, a female programmer being refered to as "he" may instead take it as more than just a mis-communication
So, there is value in sharing your gender if you're comfortable with it... if you're in an underrepresented group, the other members of your group will feel less alone, even if they don't disclose, themselves.
Stack Exchange is a great system, it would be very effective if most people using it were on the autism spectrum. Put it in the hands of neurotypicals, and it starts to go awry.
I mean, lemme be clear, I am 100% average, the Nebraska of humanity, normal to the nth degree, a perfect portrait of the top of the bell curve on any dimension of your choice... But most people are not so lucky.
I sit in a new car, I never have to adjust the seat or mirrors; the pop station the radio is tuned to plays all of my favorite songs, IQ is an even 100
I've come across another setback towards inclusivity: new users aren't told that editing an on-hold question will make it get considered for reopening.
If that's serious - there's a lot of things noobs get to learn the hard way...
oh, well I would hope the wizard thing should help, but there should be a tutorial for the extra motivated so they can avoid the potholes most noobs hit.
well I'm sure the community would prefer an indefinitely prolonged lurking period, but I think a tutorial of some kind would greatly improve experiences. The help pages are like the manual. But they don't manage expectations very well, and that's ok because I'm not sure that's their purpose.
Anyone else feel that the related questions portion of the new ask-a-question wizard should probably hoist the related questions into the wizard as individual steps and ask, for each one, if its relevant to the user's needs?
leaving them there as a static list with a big fat "just click me" button doesn't seem like it's going to have the desired effect
@JourneymanGeek I'm sure not everyone's parents have had some "here's how it really works" discussions with their kids, but that should be a rarity... my folks did their best to keep me naive though, so my "the talk" was weak sauce...
I never had the talk. I think things started earlier than they expected; so, all I got was the, "Just be respectful. No means no." talk from my mother.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog because its a pipe dream
for the vast majority of new users who get their question closed, that's the end of it. It wont be reopened. They can pour their heart and soul into it and people will still be like "no"
The close notice says to edit. The tour says that questions are closed "until they are improved", but users often either forget about it or think that an edit won't get it attention.
Is there a good ideological reason why <10k users should not have access to the data? Is sharing information in the tools publicly to others considered disclosing private information without consent?
@canon Yes, I know that the privilege to see vote counts is there for technical rather than ideological reasons. A <1k-er can look at the timeline or install a user script.
@Fabby my id, when I realize that writing tests for my extension of the Jupyter notebook is going to be way more work than I thought - but maybe I've simplified it a bit so it's not as bad. I don't think anyone would have pushed back if I declared it ridiculously impossible.
@JourneymanGeek Are your types also matching? Just because the usual stuff on a matrimony site match doesn't mean that you won't end up with someone like me.
