Timeline for Dealing with the "diversity question" answer
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| Aug 28, 2021 at 18:58 | comment | added | got trolled too much this week | "only one correct answer" only to extent that if you wholeheartedly disagree with the University's policy you probably won't get hired. What that policy is might actually vary; there were [even] some openly pro-Trump colleges, but those would probably not be asking the "how" question. I mean your answer and paulj's are basically just saying "be a yes-man on this". | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 20:25 | comment | added | eykanal Mod | @DanRomik - My take is somewhat different than Massimo's; you can have all the attitude you want, but don't bring it here. This is a forum strangers to talk to each other. No one knows each other. Bringing unnecessary attitude is a great way to tick off someone with little added benefit. On this site, I'm all about the boring. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 20:07 | comment | added | Dan Romik | @MassimoOrtolano thanks for interesting perspective re: moderation. Well, yeah, sure, if you need to moderate, give it your best shot and I appreciate your efforts and am fine with whatever decision you make. But if you declined the flags initially then it sounds like you agree the answer deserves to stay, so declining more flags seems like a reasonable solution. Anyway, FWIW, count me as one community member who thinks this answer is no worse than many others and should be left up for people to judge on its merits, or lack thereof. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 18:40 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano Mod | Not to mention the problem of moderating comments. There are clear limits in the SE platform that make it fragile with respect to certain questions or answers. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 18:38 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano Mod | @DanRomik In the "analog" life, as everyone around me knows well, I'm the opposite of fragile. Whenever I speak in public or with some authority everyone is scared by what I can say (friends say that I suffer from "excess of personality"). But here, as a moderator, I find it difficult to deal with answers like that. Look at the timeline and see how many flags that answer already received; as a moderator, you can: i) continue to decline flags; ii) ignore the flags, but after 6 rude/abusive flags the answer gets deleted automatically; iii) try to edit the answer to make it less controversial. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 3:46 | comment | added | Dan Romik | Are we so fragile that we cannot tolerate a bit of what you call “attitude” (and I’d call “personality”) in an answer? I’d argue that this so-called attitude is precisely the reason the answer got so many more upvotes than other answers that say similar things but in the kind of bland, boring language you are advocating for. So, respectfully, when you say “the above says the same thing as the current answer but without the attitude”, to me that comes across as saying something flattering about paulj’s answer and unflattering about your suggested language, rather than the other way around. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 17:57 | comment | added | eykanal Mod | @ScottSeidman - addressed in my comment on your answer. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 17:55 | comment | added | Scott Seidman | There's enough people in the US running around in red ball caps to convince me that sometimes what people believe to be true is not true. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 17:54 | comment | added | Scott Seidman | What evidence can you (or, more appropriately, the answerer) point to to confirm it's veracity. If that info were provided in the answer, it would be a valuable answer, and not a "look how PC the process is" rant. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 13:54 | history | answered | eykanalMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |