Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.

Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by onetime0001 on Sunday October 06, 2019 @11:29PM (#21177101)

I don’t understand why gender/pronouns is even being discussed. Someone’s personal feelings don’t really have any place in a question/answers site. It’s fine to respect a persons feelings and such when talking to a person but when answering a question or asking the question. The gender/pronoun is irrelevant.

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by yitchelle on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:34AM (#21178056)

The folks moderating SE are very pedantic about the wording of passages. Once I called SE a "forum", and I was politely told not to call SE a "forum". I would really hate to be a person that is not very fluent in English and trying to interact with SE.

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by Ixio on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:57AM (#21178451)

One of my latest questions got as first comment : "Please use English punctuation when writing in English."

Certainly polite but a bit jarring as a non-native speaker that feels fluent. Also a bit nonsensically-bureaucratic : I made the mistake because I didn't know any better, after the comment I still couldn't correct the mistake because I still didn't know any better, I wasn't even sure what rule of punctuation I had wronged.

I would've preferred a direct edit instead of a comment prompting though I guess that can be seen as worse by some people.

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by Symbiote on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:32AM (#21178625)

> ... nonsensically-bureaucratic : I ...

Maybe you put a space before a colon, and the eagle-eyed moderator spotted it :-)

(English rarely has a space before a punctuation mark — except for a dash in British usage. Americans—I think—do this.)

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by tsukurimashou on Monday October 07, 2019 @08:11AM (#21179833)

Yeah exactly, in French for example you put a space before a colon, a question mark, exclamation mark, while in English you don't, it is quite hard to spot for a lot of people.

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by gowld on Monday October 07, 2019 @11:13PM (#21188365)

OP is about someone who is extremely fluent in English, an expert in the eyes of the community, who was kicked out pecificaly for the sin of trying to interact with SE in fluent English.

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by ng12 on Sunday October 06, 2019 @11:31PM (#21177110)

It's confusing to me too. Very clearly this is a battle for which there are only losers and no winners.

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by sesuximo on Sunday October 06, 2019 @11:45PM (#21177204)

Regardless of what SE should do with pronouns, a mod shouldn't get fired for clarifying

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by sgummaluri on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:44AM (#21177571)

+1. Couldn't agree more!

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by sgummaluri on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:31AM (#21177498)

This is not the first time nor this is specific to SO. Here[0] is another occurrence of something similar to those interested.

[0]https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538...

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by thefz on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:59AM (#21178767)

SE's management with this rule is disarming any discussion on the matter a priori, thus avoiding any complication for itself.

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Re:Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. by brodouevencode on Monday October 07, 2019 @01:40PM (#21183694)

Because for a lot of people part of their identity is wrapped up in how offended they can be and expressing it out loud.

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