Timeline for The site should not make speculative statements about its users
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| Nov 17, 2020 at 0:12 | comment | added | customcommander |
This is a reasonable answer but perhaps this Apparently, this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them. is at odds with Stack Overflow Content principles. I personally don't mind at all but there's room for confusion here I think.
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 16:15 | comment | added | Bohemian | How about just removing altogether the lame attempt at humor and do something professional and simple instead, such as displaying what the user entered... nothing - ie just leave it blank. What's the problem with that? This is not a high school project. I've never understood why someone decided it was a good idea to put that text there. It isn't clever. It isn't funny. It isn't appropriate. And IMHO it demeans the site. I hope one day it will be removed. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 18:11 | comment | added | anatolyg | Regarding "sounding "judge-y"" - when I first saw the "air of mystery" text, I thought "silly user thinks mystery is cool". When I saw that on another user's profile, I thought "what, yet another clown that likes mystery?!". When I saw that the third time, I started looking for answers on Meta... So the attempt not sound judge-y led to quite the opposite results, at least for me. | |
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| Apr 18, 2015 at 19:01 | comment | added | user289068 | I have been trying for 5 minutes to figure out what my profile looks like to another user, and I don't know how. There is no way to "view my public profile" and, after looking everywhere I can think of, I still haven't found a link by which to log out of SE. That's a big problem. | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 14:19 | comment | added | Oleksandr R. | Additionally, why should we believe that someone else's profile is the appropriate venue to practice one's comedy routine? While hardly grossly offensive, on sites other than SO (which do not have a tradition of non-incidental humor and memes), it seems rather out of place to say the least. It isn't so much a matter of people being humorless wretches who hate fun, but that people come to the different sites with different expectations. Hope these comments do not seem too confrontational but I really think the answer needs to be clarified if it is an official position. | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 14:14 | comment | added | Oleksandr R. | I have had a similar question (253554) migrated here. Currently I am resisting suggesting it is a duplicate because I find this answer completely unsatisfactory. If this is to be the official justification for these placeholder texts, could you please explain why something (a very mildly funny, somewhat snarky remark) is to be considered less "[a placeholder] that seem[s] to suggest someone not having done or finished something more than is necessary" than nothing at all? | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 11:06 | comment | added | Jan Doggen | The lighter placeholders are designed to lead to less risk of sounding "judge-y" But if they bring in interpretations they fail in that area by definition. | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 8:32 | comment | added | l4mpi | I'm with @Roombatron5000 here - I simply don't think those are funny. I'd prefer if you would either use a descriptive text like "this user has not filled out their 'about me'" or just leave it blank. And the bit about "laser-like focus" feels way off when you read it on a help vampire profile whose laser-like focus is spamming SO with low quality crap... | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 3:32 | comment | added | bjb568 | "They all imply tasks not completed, fields not filled in, etc." That's the point… | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 3:43 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @Tim "Well at least he hasn't been involved in unicorn exploitation..." well I should hope not! Lady Stackicorn is reading over my shoulder right now, and she was quite mortified at the possibility. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 2:57 | comment | added | CRABOLO | Please change it back to nothing but white space. It's very hard to appear "funny" to a large international audience with a few unasked for "jokes". If user's want to be funny in their about me section, they can already, and many do a lot better of a job at it than this spectacle. If the developers want to be funny, they can do that in their about me, in comments, in their posts, etc. But they shouldn't be trying to "make funny" on other user's profile. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 21:48 | comment | added | Tim | @senshin fair point. However, I still don't like having to log out and in again to check it... I might miss a notification and not reply within the next 45 seconds :P | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 21:47 | comment | added | senshin | @Tim Not necessarily the same on Facebook, unless things have changed since I last checked - there can be different visibility for "logged in but no connection to me" and "not logged in". | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 21:44 | comment | added | Tim | Well at least he hasn't been involved in unicorn exploitation... frowns disapprovingly and shakes head :P | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 21:44 | comment | added | Tim | @senshin The same on Facebook. It's just not as nice to do that tbh. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 21:42 | comment | added | senshin | @Tim Since, unlike on Facebook, you don't need an account to view SE profiles at all, "view my public profile" can be accomplished by just logging out or opening a private browsing session or whatever. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 21:37 | comment | added | jonsca | @Jaydles Clearly you've just let those out of the bag yourself! | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 21:33 | comment | added | Jaydles Staff | @jonsca, you know what's NOT funny? Telling people I used to work in finance. Couldn't you focus on my prison time, or all the bunnies I used to kill for sport? Less shameful. ;) | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 21:27 | comment | added | jonsca | I'm definitely all about the pursuit of humor, if my comment history over the years hasn't betrayed that point. As someone with both a sense of humor and a financial background, I'm sure you know that diminishing returns are an issue in both industries :) If everyone at work has seen your clever XKCD, it starts to quell the SNR of your PowerPoint. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 21:07 | comment | added | Tim | I think this is on that line... Could there be some small animation instead? I'm not sure what but something along the lines of Google Chrome's dinosaur, with a mini game in. Some light hearted relief, and it shouldn't offend anyone. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 20:54 | comment | added | Jaydles Staff | @jonsca we ARE all about that, but we've always been up for a little fun where it's not in the way (like in empty fields on the profile, say). And People Reached is actually all about reminding people WHY we're so relentlessly anti-noise; its job is to reinforce the need to optimize for re-usability, by highlighting the number of downstream users who depend on finding answers fast. But I hear you - there's a delicate balance to maintain between frivolity that undermines the mission and cold humorless drudgery. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 20:41 | comment | added | jonsca | I think the underlying opposition to many of these changes (e.g., "people reached" and this one) is that they are "fluff" being presented on a network of sites that prides itself on getting to the meat of the information as quickly and efficiently as possible. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | Tim | I agree with this. I think that they are funny, but the user 100% should know they are all there. What about a "view my public profile" button, like Google+ and Facebook do? | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 20:24 | history | answered | JaydlesStaff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |