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Is CRUDE healthy?
CRUDE, as described in its description, is an incredibly helpful tool. There is nothing unhealthy about "feedback/discussion/requests of Close/Reopen/Undelete/Delete/Edit for questions and answers on ...
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How to tell a user that his/her actions are inappropriate (and should I)
If you are of the opinion that a vote to close or a review or another action on one of your posts was inappropriate you can signal this to the moderators via a flag, chose "in need of moderator ...
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Heteronormativity and binary gender assumptions
I share the sentiment but disagree with this being classified as a violation of the code of conduct.
Marriage equality is absent in most countries of the world and I found only six countries in ...
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Is CRUDE healthy?
Updated: put this suggestion at the top, since I felt it became important. Original answer follows below that.
My challenge to anyone who "doesn't like CURED":
Join the room and take actions at ...
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Why are the user suspension criteria applied for unfair comments on the main site currently not applied for unfair use of public chat rooms?
For my part I will say the following.
I don't really regret making those chat comments. I mean, I am not willing to apologize for them at the moment.
But I do concede that I'm not at all proud of ...
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Reason for downvoting the answer.
People are downvoting your answer because the question called for a proof and you posted a picture. While it is a nice illustration of the concept, it is inadequate on its own.
You might improve your ...
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Are downvotes considered offensive?
You say:
I am asking because a downvote is a really easy way for me to communicate that something needs improvement,[...]
and
I understand that an explanation is better, but isn't a downvote ...
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Heteronormativity and binary gender assumptions
I think this is a problem that we are ill-equipped to deal with, in that our actions (whatever they are) are unlikely to make a significant impact. The primary sources of these problems are professors,...
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Heteronormativity and binary gender assumptions
Let's just stick to common sense and not attempt to find all possible reasons to get offended when it is rather obvious that no offense has been meant. We have had enough of liberal extremist nonsense ...
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Heteronormativity and binary gender assumptions
Everything in the second paragraph of Theoretical Economist's answer is true and important, and I could write a great deal about it from personal experience, including how it has severely affected my ...
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Is CRUDE healthy?
Is CRUDE healthy? You mean right now!? I dunno. Heck, I don't even know when right now is!
Perhaps the more important question is
Can CRUDE be healthy? Certainly. Though it would probably be more ...
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Why are the user suspension criteria applied for unfair comments on the main site currently not applied for unfair use of public chat rooms?
It is absolutely not the position of the moderators to condone abusive behavior in chat. Chat is less formal than the main site, so there is, in practice, a bit more room for heated discussion there (...
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Is CRUDE healthy?
I was going to write just a comment, but there are several points to be made here so I decided to promote my 2 cents to an answer.
My observations regarding CRUDE, the state of MSE, and this topic:
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Is CRUDE healthy?
No, it's not.
Cranks, nuts, newbies, PSQ-askers, PSQ-answerers, rep-farmers, donut-eaters, people making wrong assertions. How can we make them stop doing those things, or get them to leave?
A self-...
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Reason for downvoting the answer.
There are two questions wrapped up in this post: "What's wrong with my answer?", and "Explain downvoting behavior.". AlexanderGruber addresss the first question, so I'm going to ...
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Why are the user suspension criteria applied for unfair comments on the main site currently not applied for unfair use of public chat rooms?
To quote the Code of Conduct (emphasis mine),
We commit to enforcing and improving the Code of Conduct. It applies to everyone using Meta Stack Exchange and the Stack Exchange network, including our ...
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Heteronormativity and binary gender assumptions
I can do no better than to quote Pere's answer in the Math Educator's Stack Exchange thread:
The issue is not making problems about heterosexual married couples. The issues are:
Implicitly making ...
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Is CRUDE healthy?
The room CRUDE is relatively tightly overseen by per-site moderators.
The activity that happens there has my full support, and if I am not all that active there myself, it is on the one hand for ...
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Are downvotes considered offensive?
I've thought a fair amount about the issue of the interpretation of downvotes. It's easy to take the stance that it's just meant as an objective rating of usefulness, relevance, or agreement, ...
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Heteronormativity and binary gender assumptions
I agree with your statement to some extent, but (paraphrasing one of your answers you linked to) I think it takes an extreme position that I believe would be harmful. It would mean that hardly any ...
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Are downvotes considered offensive?
Basically, people get really offended by unexplained downvotes. If you explain a downvote, they tend to still be very offended, but they can at least argue with, harass, and retaliate against whoever ...
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Heteronormativity and binary gender assumptions
I'm of the same line of thinking as the OP. Personally I try to use "They", "Them", and so on in my answers, and in everyday conversation. I think it's important not to assume roles (I saw a post on ...
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