Timeline for How to vote to reopen a deleted post?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://tex.stackexchange.com/ with https://tex.stackexchange.com/
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| Jan 19, 2015 at 18:07 | comment | added | yo' | @Mico I know that it's an insult. I just wanted to make clear that I'm not feeling offended, nor am I in depression or suicidal because of that. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 18:04 | comment | added | Mico | @yo' - One of the issues with calling someone "boy" is that it in no way need be an indication of age. In the US, until a generation or two ago many (though fortunately not all!) Southern whites routinely used to address all black men as "boy" -- quite clearly in a derogative and belittling way. To this day, calling any adult a "boy" in the US (unless you know them personally and it's perfectly clear from the circumstance that no insult is meant) at best betrays reckless disregard for manners -- and more likely constitutes a deliberate insult. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 17:49 | comment | added | yo' | @Mico Needed to say, I take it for a compliment if a stranger thinks I'm still a boy -- do I really look so good? :D | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 20:27 | comment | added | Mico | @jfbu - It's one thing to call strangers "guys"; I certainly wouldn't have taken notice. Calling them "boys" -- especially if you don't know them personally -- is quite a different thing. It certainly shows a spirit of condescension and belittling. | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 20:22 | comment | added | user4686 |
I looked at his network profile, this was his one and only incursion on tex.stackexchange. Maybe (s)he brought with him/her the wilderness of some other communities? I agree it is important to maintain a quiet atmosphere here. I don't read in the comment that much of an ad hominen attack, perhaps rather some lack of imagination. A bit of defiance for sure. But there is always the possibility to flag the comment for moderator attention!
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| Jan 18, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | Mico | @jfbu - Thanks. It may also be worth noting, for the record, that the writer posted a comment in which he belittled the two initial critical comments as coming from "boys". Ad hominem attacks should definitely not be given much space on this site, right? | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 18:13 | comment | added | user4686 | .. well, I agree with most of what you say, but I hesitate to upvote, because I don't agree with all. damn'it... will upvote. | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 18:11 | comment | added | user4686 |
I appreciate your motivations, thanks for spending the time recording them. The simply hate LaTeX might be a testimony of the poster being a teenager? who would have started using TeX at age 3 or 4? my personal opinion is that not up-voting, or, in case of strong disagreement, down-voting could have been enough. I concur that some opinionated answers might be simply outrageous, or completely off-topic. But the wording of the OQ itself was outrageoustangled webs of junk, ridiculous \makeatletter, much more fiddly than they should be, once the OQ was left opened, (no room)
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| Jan 18, 2015 at 15:17 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2015 at 14:26 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2015 at 14:10 | history | answered | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |