The reaction that I, and most people I saw comment on it, had to the initial complaints about those specific questions was along the lines of "huh? what's wrong with that?".
Yes. I know. I, however, saw the problem, and my hypothesis is that the SE employees, who responded with such alacrity, also saw the problem, in the way that precisely you and the other SE volunteers did not.
It seems you are having trouble entertaining the hypothesis that something really bad was happening, and the SE employees who responded so swiftly (and your your and other SE volunteers' vantages so harshly) were actually responding proportionately.
Yes, I know that from your perspective the criticism was mystifying and seemed to be coming from one crank, especially in light of the swearing and hostility that followed. From the perspective of the SE ledership (and from a whole boatload of tech Twitter), the criticism was very clear, very apropos, and of a piece with a whole lot of other criticism (throughout the tech industry) which has been raised and much discussed publically, elsewhere, and the swearing and hostility was not unjustified in light of the extreme lapse of respect the replies she got demonstrated.
I know you're hugely partial to SE and willing to cut it all sorts of slack out of affection. But please consider the posibility that just because you didn't see those criticisms as a big (and legitimate) detail, doesn't mean they weren't, and doesn't mean the management of SE didn't realize that they were, too.
I can give you an analogy that might illuminate the original controversy, if you like, but it will be unpleasant.
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Date: 2018-11-22 03:43 am (UTC)The reaction that I, and most people I saw comment on it, had to the initial complaints about those specific questions was along the lines of "huh? what's wrong with that?".
Yes. I know. I, however, saw the problem, and my hypothesis is that the SE employees, who responded with such alacrity, also saw the problem, in the way that precisely you and the other SE volunteers did not.
It seems you are having trouble entertaining the hypothesis that something really bad was happening, and the SE employees who responded so swiftly (and your your and other SE volunteers' vantages so harshly) were actually responding proportionately.
Yes, I know that from your perspective the criticism was mystifying and seemed to be coming from one crank, especially in light of the swearing and hostility that followed. From the perspective of the SE ledership (and from a whole boatload of tech Twitter), the criticism was very clear, very apropos, and of a piece with a whole lot of other criticism (throughout the tech industry) which has been raised and much discussed publically, elsewhere, and the swearing and hostility was not unjustified in light of the extreme lapse of respect the replies she got demonstrated.
I know you're hugely partial to SE and willing to cut it all sorts of slack out of affection. But please consider the posibility that just because you didn't see those criticisms as a big (and legitimate) detail, doesn't mean they weren't, and doesn't mean the management of SE didn't realize that they were, too.
I can give you an analogy that might illuminate the original controversy, if you like, but it will be unpleasant.