@Kaz Such as? I feel like people are coming up with lots of hypotheticals, but I've seen nothing to indicate that there will be any issue once the novelty of a change in the CoC dies down.
I see singular "they" and mentally see the squiggly underline of the Word grammar checker and it kinda throws me off, but it isn't otherwise objectionable.
@djsmiley2k Usenet friendly? Small groups perhaps. Those with more participants had their trolls, their kooks, their flamewars. Godwin law is from that time after all.
@AndrasDeak No, it doesn't. You just can't please everyone. Some people would have to accept you can't make a case for their particular single identity, no offense to trans people meant. It just isn't meaningful.
@StephanS, right? I feel sorry for the regulars in here who have to tend to the same argument over and over. My heart be with you all on this tough time.
Just as an FYI, any variation on the "joke" that goes like "I'm going to change my pronoun to [insert trolly ridiculous word/phrase]" is not cool and not funny. Firstly, you aren't the first or even the 1,000,000,00th person to make that comment. It's so old. More importantly, trans/NB have had to live with that attitude of the general public IRL every day of their lives. It's not a joke and it's not nice.
I ask that ... we stay well clear of borderline, at least for today, for now. Please. It might have been in good humor and intended as harmless and friendly, but like I said, nerves are raw. Please just continue on and don't turn this into a federal case...
@user58 it wasn't a joke about referring to anyone by anything thing it was about legally changing their name because they thought Froopy was a cool name
@djsmiley2k Entirely off-topic, but what's the name of your smiley face? I used to use the guy in chatrooms all the time, but I don't know the name of it to search for it.
Best mental help comes from true friends who don't push you away when you become inconvenient. People who do push you away are acquaintances, not friends.
I guess I need someone to come round my house, get the wife to stop spending so much, to help me learn how to do woodwork so I can do this stuff I think of, that can't implement. and then help me with mental health too :D
We have lots of cute marsupials in Australia, but they're generally protected, so you aren't permitted to keep them as pets. But I know (or used to know) people who do animal rescue work, so they get to adopt various critters for a little while.
@JoseAntonioDuraOlmos To be honest, the baby was abandoned and climbed on my SO (who handed it to me)... I tried putting it back in a tree in an artificial nest. Checked back on it for 24 hours and it was still there and very weak. I couldn't leave it to die.
Especially didn't help that I went outside while talking on the phone and it heard me, climbed down the tree to come climb up my leg so I would take care of it.
Before I moved back to Sydney, I lived in a region that had a decent kangaroo population. We'd occasionally get a few of them visiting our yard, which was nice. They would just graze on the lawn (we had about an acre of land) and didn't attack the garden. We did have problems with possums though, nesting in the roof space during winter. And eating the pineapples in our garden in summer. :)
@Emilie I've been told that quite often a young bird on the floor is just learning how to fly. And failing a lot until they do, of course. Also being told that some fauna depend on some of them dying and I'd be harming them. Nature is cruel.
Maaan the CoC FAQ is a joke. We're now banned by Q4 from correcting misgendering unless the person being misgendered has stated their pronouns on Stack Exchange? If something thinks Anne van Kesteren is a woman, it's now a specific CoC violation to fix it? I... can't even make sense of the motivation behind that.
As a moderator, I have to help this community thrive and also to represent it towards Stack Exchange.
I am convinced that many of SE's recent choices: ads, CoC changes, license changes, are actively hurting this community, which I represent.
Furthermore, many of our requests, if not almost all o...
@MarkAmery Hardly. The intention of that edit was to clarify that you should use caution in pointing out someone's gender if it's not stated on SE as there is a risk of outing someone who wishes for their gender to be unknown.
I've bitterly disagreed with you on occasion, @Sklivvz (and even more occasionally out loud), but you were always thoughtful, intellectually honest, and principled. Your resignation, like that of so many other mods, is a loss to the site. I wish you well with whatever cause you choose to serve next.
@user58 that reminds me, the other day I was walking in the city and I think I heard a peacock of all things. Didn't get a visual on it though, so it could've been something else
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I don't know how likely, I do know people often misread animal communications. The peacock was telling them to get lost. He opened his wings in a sign of aggression to say "move on" and the parents weren't sensible enough to tell the kids to move away and give him space. I'm so strict with my horses and people get upset with me sometimes, I try to warn people, what can seem cute may be a warning and if a horse turns and kicks you, they can inflict serious damage - or even kill a person
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog it's true. I still agree with that and am selective who I allow near my horses and don't let people into some of the paddocks
I wonder how Wikipedia manages with pretty much all of its community moderation being done in public
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@Sklivvz I actually understand you - but I stepped down before all this. It's driving me crazy watching it also. I'm really questioning whether I want to be on the site - but not because I don't like the network - I value the team and the changes - it's all this uproar
I like the community, but the company (with all due respect) is completely gone bonkers. I disagree a lot with many of the announcements, starting with the CoC changes which are risible
