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from the prevention-goes-a-long-way dept.
So, every once in awhile, if things have been quiet, I like to pop a post seeing what the general feelings of the community are towards the site, seeing what we could do better, etc. I think its been a few months since the last time I posted in Meta, so I think this is a good time to get a pulse on the community, and provide a venue to get any feedback (good or bad).
On the staff side, I know things have been relatively quiet over the summer due to most of us being busy with life and such, which is why we haven't made a major site upgrade since the original rehash upgrade at the end of May. For myself, I've been working at a new job, and dealing with a fair bit of non-Soylent related things to the point that I really only have the time or energy to post, and occasional check in, and I'd like to thank the rest of the staff, and mrcoolbp in particular for holding down the fort for me.
Anyway, in contrast to my usual posts, I'm going to cut this off here, and will be looking forward to your comments below.
73 from NCommander
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 17 2015, @01:51PM
I don't know that pretending to not have political positions has particular merit. It's good to know where someone is coming from. But jingoism turns shrill, fast, so I agree with you insofar as that goes.
I have been gratified to see many regulars, who walked in off the street spouting partisan gibberish, come to drop that stuff and reveal the living, breathing complexity of intelligent beings underneath. Focus-group tested talking points make everyone petty and stupid. Reasoned, informed discussion keeps you on your toes, and whets your wits.
So I say, fine, have opinions, but present & defend them brilliantly.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 17 2015, @02:26PM
Just to nit pick
1) Who gatekeeps the probably rather immense list of possible positions? Or just allow free text and no graphics?
2) I'd suggest making it optional for non political discussion... someone pissed off at "ABCs" normally wouldn't downvote an insightful rant about why Clojure lisp should have reader macros, and next thing you know its getting downvoted more for the "ABC" party affiliation than because programmer-(re)defined reader macros basically suck for long term code readability.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2015, @05:22PM
My complaint is not that people have opinions or express them. My complaint is that some people (who probably don't even know who they are) bring politics into every goddamn post.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2015, @07:09PM
It's Obama's fault.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2015, @08:29PM
... but he inherited this mess from the Republicans and at least he isn't as bad as Mittens.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @05:09AM
Parent is obviously an SJW, trying to force PC on all of us.