Since I cannot imagine anything but a few cherry picked examples that could have led to your impression, let me use some of my own (the number of cases is low):
The extremely positive reception of Alicorns “Living Luminously” sequence (karma +50 for the main post alone, Anja’s great and technical posts (karmas +13, +34, +29) all indicate that good content is not filtered along gender lines, which it should be if there were some pervasive bias.
Even asserting that understanding anyone of the other gender is “like trying to understand an alien” does not imply any sort of male superiority complex. If you object to sexism as just pointing out that there are differences both based on culture and genetics, well you got me there. Quite obviously there are, I assume you don’t live in a hermaphrodite community. Why is it bad when/if that comes up? Forbidden knowledge?
If you’re interested in one problem that is causing at least one rationalist to bounce off your site (...)
Are you sure that’s the rationalist thing to do? Gender imbalance and a few misplaced or easily misinterpreted remarks need not be representative of a community, just as a predominantly male CS program at Caltech and frat jokes need not be representative of College culture.
Gender imbalances and the occasional frat jokes didn’t cause you to leave Caltech.
It’s possible that user is sensitive to gender issues precisely because it’s comparatively difficult and not entirely rationalist to leave a community like Caltech.
It’s generally the stance of gender-sensitive humans that no one should have to listen to the occasional frat joke if they don’t want to. I agree with everything else in your post; that final “can’t you take a frat joke?” strikes me as defensive and unnecessary.
You’re right, strictly speaking, the protocol would be TCPIP. :)
(There is no mandatory or even authoritative social protocol for this situation. The typical behavior is editing and then putting an EDIT: brief explanation of edit, but just editing with no explanation is also fine, particularly if nobody’s replied yet, or the edit is explained in child comments).
just editing with no explanation is also fine, particularly if nobody’s replied yet
Well earlier today I clarified (euphemism for edited) a comment shortly after it was made, then found a reply that cited the old, unclarified version. You know what that looks like, once the tribe finds out? OhgodImdone.
In a hushed voice I just found out that EY can edit his comments without an asterisk appearing.
Since I cannot imagine anything but a few cherry picked examples that could have led to your impression, let me use some of my own (the number of cases is low):
The extremely positive reception of Alicorns “Living Luminously” sequence (karma +50 for the main post alone, Anja’s great and technical posts (karmas +13, +34, +29) all indicate that good content is not filtered along gender lines, which it should be if there were some pervasive bias.
Even asserting that understanding anyone of the other gender is “like trying to understand an alien” does not imply any sort of male superiority complex. If you object to sexism as just pointing out that there are differences both based on culture and genetics, well you got me there. Quite obviously there are, I assume you don’t live in a hermaphrodite community. Why is it bad when/if that comes up? Forbidden knowledge?
Are you sure that’s the rationalist thing to do? Gender imbalance and a few misplaced or easily misinterpreted remarks need not be representative of a community, just as a predominantly male CS program at Caltech and frat jokes need not be representative of College culture.
It’s possible that user is sensitive to gender issues precisely because it’s comparatively difficult and not entirely rationalist to leave a community like Caltech.
It’s generally the stance of gender-sensitive humans that no one should have to listen to the occasional frat joke if they don’t want to. I agree with everything else in your post; that final “can’t you take a frat joke?” strikes me as defensive and unnecessary.
You’re right, it was too carelessly formulated.
Will you fix it? =) Is there an established protocol for fixing these sorts of things?
The edit button? :P
Is that a protocol, strictly speaking? “Pressing the edit button” would be a protocol with only one action (not sufficient).
Maybe there will be a policy post on this soon.
You’re right, strictly speaking, the protocol would be TCPIP. :)
(There is no mandatory or even authoritative social protocol for this situation. The typical behavior is editing and then putting an EDIT: brief explanation of edit, but just editing with no explanation is also fine, particularly if nobody’s replied yet, or the edit is explained in child comments).
Well earlier today I clarified (euphemism for edited) a comment shortly after it was made, then found a reply that cited the old, unclarified version. You know what that looks like, once the tribe finds out? OhgodImdone.
In a hushed voice I just found out that EY can edit his comments without an asterisk appearing.