Activity for Mark Baker
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| Comment | Post #39372 |
Are you sure poignant is the word you mean? "evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret." The US Declaration of Independence is a denunciation of tyranny and a justification for rebellion. I don't see much poignant about it. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39365 |
Cool. Subscribed. Thanks. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39346 |
@Amadeus Nobody writes for everybody. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39346 |
I have yet to read a sex scene that did not make me wince. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39336 |
@MonicaCellio, I do like the idea of giving priority to the new, though. It would be useful, as a user, to be able to view the site in "What's new" more or in "What's best" mode, depending on the reason for my visit. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39336 |
Right, but there is potentially far more to curation than simple deletion of the egregiously bad. Consolidation and pruning could make a huge difference to the quality of the information set. On the other hand, they could offend the contributors and make reputation counting more complex. Not easy cho... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39335 |
@Amadeus, fixed, thanks. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39299 |
Re number 3. The Ask button is right next to the Meta button. So once you have located the Meta button, you have also located the Ask button. So when you want to ask a question in Meta, you don't look for an Ask button, because you already know where it is. You just press it. The notice that comes up... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #37857 |
Both allowed and obnoxious. Allowed because it is sufficiently supported by convention and usage. Obnoxious because it should be unnecessary in well written prose. Lots of things are both allowed and obnoxious. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39277 |
Agreed. Even if the "interobang" exists (it's a new one on me), familiarity is *the* core value of communication. Use the most familiar word that does the job. Use the most familiar punctuation that does the job. Personally, if I saw '‽' in a book I would take it for a printing error. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
But if when I sign up I am told that Monica is in charge and here is what she will tolerate and what she won't, that's much easier. It does not require me to agree to your principles. It just tells me that if you don't like what I say, you will shut me down. Agreeing to submit to authority is much l... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
My point, as in the SE case, is that if I am required to subscribe to a code, I have to look at that code as a whole and decide if I can subscribe to all it implications and assumptions. In the case of SE, I could not, even though the chances that I would ever have actually violated it are extremely... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
@MonicaCellio, exactly. And that comes down to where authority lies. Does authority lie in the moderator or in the code. If authority lies in the mod, there is no arguing with the decision. If it lies in the code, then there is endless ground for arguing about the decision of the mod. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
@ThomasMyron What cannot be legislated must be adjudicated, and what must be adjudicated depends on the character and principles of the Judge. There is no way around this. This too is the human condition. In the end, thought, admitting this can result in a less restrictive covenant.
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39307 |
Seems to have worked, @ArtofCode. Thanks! (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
A policy that says no harassment must be intended is unenforceable. A policy that says no harassment must ever be felt is impossible to comply with. That's where the loophole lies, and it is a loophole in human nature that no code of conduct, however worded, can ever close. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
And someone may feel harrassed by even the most innocent and innocuous of comments that just happens to fall on an already raw nerve that the speaker could not possible have known about. People also can and do claim to be harrassed solely for the purpose of shutting down a contrary opinion. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
@ThomasMyron that is the fundamental problem with the notion of harassment. There is the intent to harass and the feeling of being harrassed. An argument might be advanced passionately, in the heat of argument, with no intent other than to prove the point at issue, which might make certain parties fe... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39307 |
If my ID was user16226, then that's it. Otherwise, it is gone. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
The site owner is entirely within their rights to do that. It is the same principle on which I invite people into my house. It leaves no wiggle room for barrack room lawyers, and it forces no one to take an ideological test to join. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
On the other hand, I would have no problem with a site that said, "This is my site and I reserve the right to delete anything I don't like and kick off anyone I don't like, and here are my general principles, just so you know. You have zero rights, and you make zero promises. You are here at my indul... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
Now, it is vanishing unlikely that I would ever have done anything to violate that code, but by being forced to accept that code, I was forced to subscribe to the ideology behind that code and that, on one particular point, I could not do. Most people would not scruple about it as it do, but a signif... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39304 |
@ArtOfCode, I was just reading through the thread that Monica pointed to, and as I was reading it, it occurred to me that there is a certain futility in trying to establish rules of conduct that people are asked to agree to up front and which they can then appeal to in cases of dispute. For me, as le... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39305 |
Actually, no, it looks like a bug. When I try to ask a meta question, I get the banner saying it is a meta question, but then when I press ask, I get a banner saying I am asking on the main site. So it does not seem possible to ask on meta right now, or else I'm missing something in my question and w... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39305 |
Sure. Thought I was asking on meta though. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39305 |
Well, my stuff is listed as user16226 on SE, but it appears as "System" here. But I wouldn't know how to reclaim them even if I found them. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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