First tweet: "When people seem confused about why Stack Overflow might not be the most welcoming/comfortable place for people to find answers to programming questions, show them this", with screenshots of the SciFi and girlfriend questions and one other. I got this wrong before; the autism one was in a second tweet. That additional IPS question in the first tweet was: "How do I tell students at a school I volunteer at to stop flirting with me?" This is the one where the author saw the complaint and edited (s/flirting/behaving inappropriately).
A second tweet said: "Every year I get frustrated by the release of the @StackOverflow "survey" because I don't think their user base is inclusive. And most of the time, I get pushback from folks who work there. THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE is what I'm talking about."
A third tweet included the autism question, with: "Cool ableism on the front page of a website for dev questions".
A later tweet referred generically to "offensive content".
Just about every reply from somebody trying to help was met with hostility and often profanity. I called troll on the tweeter because of the followup, not because of the original tweets. Indeed, it initially seemed possible that constructive discussion (that would help SE) could result, else I presume people wouldn't have bothered.
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Date: 2018-11-22 12:17 am (UTC)First tweet: "When people seem confused about why Stack Overflow might not be the most welcoming/comfortable place for people to find answers to programming questions, show them this", with screenshots of the SciFi and girlfriend questions and one other. I got this wrong before; the autism one was in a second tweet. That additional IPS question in the first tweet was: "How do I tell students at a school I volunteer at to stop flirting with me?" This is the one where the author saw the complaint and edited (s/flirting/behaving inappropriately).
A second tweet said: "Every year I get frustrated by the release of the @StackOverflow "survey" because I don't think their user base is inclusive. And most of the time, I get pushback from folks who work there. THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE is what I'm talking about."
A third tweet included the autism question, with: "Cool ableism on the front page of a website for dev questions".
A later tweet referred generically to "offensive content".
Just about every reply from somebody trying to help was met with hostility and often profanity. I called troll on the tweeter because of the followup, not because of the original tweets. Indeed, it initially seemed possible that constructive discussion (that would help SE) could result, else I presume people wouldn't have bothered.