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You can set your username to whatever you want. I do! The issue with /user/username is usernames are not unique on SE and it would need a massive re-design of how we think of profiles.
Your profile is actually linked to your userid (and in DB terms that's pretty much your primary key), and your ...
I'll be honest: your name, avatar, and writing style made me initially believe you were a sock puppet of a specific banned user, but after doing some digging I realized I'd interacted with you before but under a different username.
@SonictheAnonymousWizHog In part, I was simply testing out "Manly Man's Field", (Jedrek apparently means "Manly"), compared to a more anonymous name like Namaste, and my almost 8 years straight as amWhy, on math.se, where I had disclosed a few times that I am a woman.
I still worry that woman aren't necessarily taken as seriously on STEM sites, but I'm encouraged by the SE staff, site mods, etc., that wear their (women's) names proudly.
@JedrekMansfield @SonictheAnonymousWizHog (All for the same account!, just username changes.)
@JedrekMansfield That is absolutely correct. I've volunteered at girls' schools to teach programming, and I've witnessed that firsthand (my students often complained to me that they're not taken as seriously in the home).
And yes, I've received my fair share of flack for doing so (as a male). It's difficult to be part of a movement which males are expected to be either neutral or against.
That's the American South, not STEM or tech as a whole. While STEM/tech certainly has misogynistic issues, I very much disagree that it's something that men are expected be either neutral about or against.
We all have different cultural conditioning. At the event the aforementioned T-shirt was for, which was in the heart of Texas, there were almost no men volunteering.
@Aibobot You can say that about SE back in 2013/14, with me...
@KevinB I wasn't making a generalization when I wrote my personal concerns. I used STEM, but my own personal experiences in programming have been positive. Not so much, in terms of gender, in math, nor in philosophy. But that's not to say that every woman has the same experience. I'm not as young as many are likely here in this chat.
@JedrekMansfield Kinda the point of the joke. And my personal experience, the amount of times I got a 'because you're female's from other females is staggering
Most people in here know that, so I thought it didn't need explaining and would be understood as a joke. I'm sorry if it missed it's mark
@JedrekMansfield Anyhow, with regards to that I'd be careful with your results. Namaste/amWhy built up a certain... reputation ... And any perceived change might just be because that association with that reputation is gone.
@Tinkeringbell Very true. My username "Jedrek Mansfield" was only meant to be temporary, because most people seemed to know it was still "me"... it was in part me just being "facetious".
@MetaAndrewT. It's funny, because I went seven years without changing my original username: amWhy. In 2018, it was just for fun: amWhat, or amHow. But changed back within a week. (Surprising I was able to do that.) In 2019, I went with Namaste (I've always loved that word), and only this month, Jedrek which I still fail to connect with me!
@Tinkeringbell the "... reputation ..." you refer to, given the elipses, is not entirely, nor mostly, correct. If you insist on regular references in chat to my " ... reputation ..." in that way, I'll have a problem, because much of it is based on false premises and erroneous conclusions. As a mod or community mod, you should know better than to "inadvertently" or "intentionally" reveal matters, sarcastically or directly, that are not relevant in the context. You know very little about me.
@Aibobot Yeah... I should look into those workarounds, because as of now, I can't revert my username until July 28th. :-(
@KevinB I have no idea who or what is doing it. I'm not making any assumptions, I was just validating a question asked elsewhere as I was fairly sure that sort of thing was blocked.
If there's no connection between the person casting the vote and the person receiving the vote, there's no way to prove that it's just someone countering downvotes.
it's not fraudulent either, so is it really something that would be reversed anyway?
there's no gain in it for the person doing it, and it's not targeting any one user,
it'd be no different than someone going around downvoting a bunch of random stuff
@KevinB It could be argued that it is irresponsible to go on a rampage of upvoting, just to upvote, with upvotes that just happen to be widely distributed (same for downvoting in the same manner). But I agree: doing either is rarely actionable.
Why was my "no longer needed" flag on this comment declined? After that comment, I updated my mock screenshot to feature a capitalized "Cancel" button (the one that was in my post at the time I posted the comment featured a lowercase "cancel" button).
@SonictheAnonymousWizHog re-raise with a custom flag and explain you handled the comment with an edit. No need to go after the who and why and when for a comment flag.
If mods are supposed to handle flags while being denied the information pivotal to the flags' primary purpose ... I call that broken. Not hit and miss. Broken.
@rene No, you let that failure fester in your belly.... sprouting and sprawling into an unstoppable corruption, consuming all self-esteem. Self-loathing is our mission, right?
@OptimusPrime I remember the complaints when the pages weren't wide enough. Not sure why you now all of sudden are so desperate to view the site on post-stamp size screens.
I might consider buying a smart watch once the screen is able to unfold / slide out / holo-project to 9x its idle size when in use. Without costing a fortune and breaking in six hours, may I add.
I hate microsoft teams because they penned it as the replacement for "skype for business" but unlike skype for business, you can't connect skype users to it for a conversation. I very much dislike how all of their services are separate applications and don't seem to really co-mingle very well.
like, their idea of integrating "Planner" (trello) with teams is a link in teams that opens the planner app.
@ShaWiz Pretty much what Keven just said. Coming from Skype, there was missing functionality, the UI was an unintuitive mess, and the application was rife with buggy behavior. That made me want resort to Skype... which is just an absurd desire.
...or, if you want actual inbox notifications, putting a bounty on it will do that. That only lasts for a week, though, and naturally costs you rep.
Although people do have more of an incentive to answer it, then.
Favoriting it will make a number show up on the "favorites" tab in your profile when it has activity, which is slightly useless for keeping eye on something unless you're regularly checking your profile.
