I prefer to know what was said before deciding how I feel about it.
Of course. I'm not asking anybody to jump to my defense; I'm sharing my perspective and frustration and trying to stay focused enough that people will read. I was focusing here on SE's handling of the complaint and the aftermath of that, rather than the original tweet (which has now been deleted), but perhaps I elided too much.
The tweeter showed three question titles in screenshots:
- IPS: How do you tell a Facebook friend that they might be on the autism spectrum? - IPS: How to approach a friend about his girlfriend asking to sleep with me? - SciFi: Story about aliens nicknamed "Eechees" who have created a network of tunnels on Mars
(The last was not mentioned again, so any concerns there remain unclear.)
The first question was asked by somebody who is also on the spectrum. The second was asked by somebody who did not welcome the advances. In both cases you'd need to click through to know that and I expect the askers never considered what contextless titles would look like, though I also don't see what's wrong with either of these titles coming from a site about interpersonal relations. The author of one of the questions, I forget which, edited the title after seeing that somebody had complained. Editing is usually the first response on SE to discovering (fixable) problematic content, so I'm not sure why nuking the entire site from the list is the preferred option here.
Screenshots of employee #2's tweets are in my Medium post.
I have 18 pages of screenshots (made by somebody else) that capture most but not all of the tangle of messages that Twitter calls threading.
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Date: 2018-11-21 11:09 pm (UTC)Of course. I'm not asking anybody to jump to my defense; I'm sharing my perspective and frustration and trying to stay focused enough that people will read. I was focusing here on SE's handling of the complaint and the aftermath of that, rather than the original tweet (which has now been deleted), but perhaps I elided too much.
The tweeter showed three question titles in screenshots:
- IPS: How do you tell a Facebook friend that they might be on the autism spectrum?
- IPS: How to approach a friend about his girlfriend asking to sleep with me?
- SciFi: Story about aliens nicknamed "Eechees" who have created a network of tunnels on Mars
(The last was not mentioned again, so any concerns there remain unclear.)
The first question was asked by somebody who is also on the spectrum. The second was asked by somebody who did not welcome the advances. In both cases you'd need to click through to know that and I expect the askers never considered what contextless titles would look like, though I also don't see what's wrong with either of these titles coming from a site about interpersonal relations. The author of one of the questions, I forget which, edited the title after seeing that somebody had complained. Editing is usually the first response on SE to discovering (fixable) problematic content, so I'm not sure why nuking the entire site from the list is the preferred option here.
Screenshots of employee #2's tweets are in my Medium post.
I have 18 pages of screenshots (made by somebody else) that capture most but not all of the tangle of messages that Twitter calls threading.