Answer by user5451396 for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
You're making that mistake where you're confusing being bad at code and reading documentation with being a garbage person or someone who doesn't care. Some people start at level 0 and literally can't...
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Some elder or experienced Stack Overflow users have been more unwelcome to new users these years than the site initially was, but usually not related to their nationality / skin color / accent / gender...
View ArticleAnswer by Mr Guy for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with...
I've been downvoted before, but you know what? - that is quality control in action. This is not a personal assault on anyone. From my observations it has never been about race or gender either. The...
View ArticleAnswer by user3458 for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
This answer from Tim Post, the Director Of Community Strategy for Stack Overflow, is the closest to admitting something is wrong with The Post that you're going to get. It even says "nobody failed at...
View ArticleAnswer by ImportanceOfBeingErnest for Does Stack Exchange really want to...
If a Christian enters a mosque without taking his shoes off, If a queer man enters the swimming pool with his jeans still on, If a woman continues her phone call once the cinema screening starts, If a...
View ArticleAnswer by cham for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with...
I think, in answer to the original question, yes separate the two matters. As a "newbie" I think SO is a great site but once you start to ask questions it becomes a scary place. After reading the style...
View ArticleAnswer by TheLittleNaruto for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate...
Please do not even post such an issue. It's not a social platform. On Stack Overflow everyone is a developer first; gender or color never comes in the picture.We have rich set of FAQs; if one reads it...
View ArticleAnswer by Michael Kay for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
What I don't really see in either the blog or in these comments is a discussion of sensitivity to criticism. Generally I think we treat it as a mark of a good developer that they are open to criticism:...
View ArticleAnswer by J. Martin for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
I am curious and open to see some evidence. Where are the screenshots of these sexist, racist or other-ist posts on SO? I mean, every internet site has the occasional troll, but SO is blessedly free of...
View ArticleAnswer by user3956566 for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with women/people of color?As for that blog post, I personally had my own opinions about it, that were not favourable when they wanted to post it,...
View ArticleAnswer by Cindy Meister for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate...
I've been reading these discussions about rudeness, being welcoming (or not) and possible discrimination for some time now, without voicing my opinion. The point has come where I have to have my say:My...
View ArticleAnswer by Jon Ericson for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
For the last 6 years or so, the system has blocked between 40-50% of all attempts to ask questions. The trend has been increasing without much work being done to add blocks. Clearly some people just...
View ArticleAnswer by Marco13 for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
Stack Overflow is all about discrimination. Not discrimination against people, but discrimination between things. Namely: Between good and bad questions and answers.And only about that!There is...
View ArticleAnswer by Dimitris Fasarakis Hilliard for Does Stack Exchange really want to...
Feelings have no “technically correct.” They’re just what the feeler is telling you. When someone tells you how they feel, you can pack up your magnifying glass and clue kit, cuz that’s the...
View ArticleAnswer by gnat for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with...
Upon re-reading this blog article I have got my own theory on what is in there. Simply put, it looks like a trick to gain points at performance reviews in the Stack Exchange company (most likely by...
View ArticleAnswer by baao for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with...
That's just another case of SO trying to blame the community, this time with other words. The site is solely run by the community, so the headline alone is a accusation of every single user.Stack...
View ArticleAnswer by Steve Summit for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate...
Thing is, SO is hostile. (Not all the time, but too much of the time.) That hostility is often justified as being in response to "terrible questions" (and there are indeed plenty of terrible...
View ArticleAnswer by PM 2Ring for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
Conflating the hostility towards clueless newbies with racism or other forms of discrimination is misguided, IMHO. Most of the time we can't tell the race or gender of the OP. In my experience, racism...
View ArticleAnswer by Bill the Lizard for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate...
Stop the stream of garbage at its source, and the problem disappears. The community need change nothing; only SE needs to be changed.I only half agree with this. The stream of garbage questions is...
View ArticleAnswer by Tim Post for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
There's an intersection at which we're very certain that groups of people who experience discrimination or other effects of marginalization in life do not engage with Stack Overflow because our...
View ArticleAnswer by Benjol for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with...
I think this extract from IPS confirms the conflation is not a mis-reading:I've been talking with all sorts of people about it, looking for answers, because, while IPS may be a really obvious and...
View ArticleAnswer by Kami Kaze for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
This kind of hits what I was thinking. There is a big problem with this blogpost.The general consensus is quite okay with me, it should be more welcoming. But making this a case of discrimination in...
View ArticleAnswer by coredump for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies...
Indeed, merging these two cases brings with it the implication that SE thinks that "women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups" are responsible for a lot of the garbage questions that...
View ArticleAnswer by Ondrej Tucny for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate...
When I read the blogpost my first thought was like “Is this still a programming site or a social justice movement?” Honestly, I can't see a negative link between bad behavior and the OP being a woman,...
View ArticleAnswer by Oleg for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with...
This is how social justice advocates' logic works. On one hand they try to claim that they think everybody are equal, on the other they claim that "marginalized groups" can't succeed without getting...
View ArticleAnswer by Maroun for Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with...
I'm really surprised to see this statement on this blogpost. I'm trying hard to see the relation between how someone acts to a post, and the gender/color/group of the OP.I've been here since 2013, and...
View ArticleDoes Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with women/people of color?
The Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming blog post says:Too many people experience Stack Overflow as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in...
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