Timeline for How many more casualties in the war on pronouns?
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| Oct 29, 2019 at 18:20 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | Welcome back R.H. | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 13:47 | comment | added | Scott Hannen | @aparente001 I couldn't begin to guess. Hanlon's razor - which I had never heard of before all of this, but now I've heard of lots of times - suggests that it's not deliberate at all. It might be deliberate, given, as mentioned, how predictable all of this was. But at that point it's lots of guessing. Who is pulling which strings? What is their endgame? Did someone act deliberately, but then the effects got away from them? It's all on the table. The truth is out there. I'm just sayin'. | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 13:42 | comment | added | aparente001 | @ScottHannen - Okay, thanks, I'm starting to follow, but then who could be interested in achieving the destruction? | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 13:30 | comment | added | Scott Hannen | @aparente001 I'll dance around it a bit myself: Suppose my house is on fire and I stand in front of it watching it burn. You're saying to yourself (or to me) "Call the fire department! Turn on a hose! Do something!" Then you see me throw some gas on it. "Stop! You're making it worse!" At some point you must at least consider the possibility that I started the fire and that I want the house to burn. | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 6:53 | comment | added | aparente001 | @Marco13 - I wish I were smarter, and able to figure out what you're hinting at. | |
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| Oct 13, 2019 at 21:31 | history | edited | user102937 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2019 at 21:01 | comment | added | Marco13 | Admittedly, considering the disasters that we observed recently (in terms of PR and particularly regarding the established user base), and how predictable they have been, and how ignorant SE has been, I start to doubt that "profitability" has anything to do with all this. It's rather something that, if spoken out loud (and not phrased extremely carefully) would sound like a conspiracy theory, so I recommend everybody to keep an eye open and think about who could be interested in achieving what in this game. | |
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| Oct 13, 2019 at 19:19 | comment | added | user102937 | @JohnOmielan: Hmm, was Scott Adams trying on a new look in September? Or maybe he was on vacation and someone else was filling in. In other news, daaaammn. Scott has gotten more cynical than I am, and I didn't think that was possible. | |
| Oct 13, 2019 at 18:37 | comment | added | John Omielan | As I've mentioned elsewhere, unfortunately a lot of the recent company related actions, and sometimes inactions, remind me a lot of the Dilbert cartoons. | |
| Oct 13, 2019 at 18:30 | comment | added | John Omielan | I fully agree with your comment above, based on my interpretation of what I've read here and the actions I've seen various company staff take recently. | |
| Oct 13, 2019 at 18:28 | comment | added | user102937 | @JohnOmielan: Fair enough. I did suggest (rightly, I believe) that there are individuals in the organization who exert disproportionate influence, and that agreement among the staff is not universal. | |
| Oct 13, 2019 at 18:27 | comment | added | John Omielan | I would be careful about lumping the entire company into that statement. This is only guessing & extrapolation on my part from a very limited set of information, plus some previous experience working at larger companies as a contractor, but I believe some of the people at SE don't think they have a problem, while others do. Unfortunately, the ones who don't think they have a problem are mostly the ones who are the basic cause of the problems. This is mainly why I wrote there's no easy solution because, short of reassigning or firing them, not much else can reasonably be done. | |
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| Oct 13, 2019 at 18:10 | comment | added | John Omielan | I don't know what's going on internally at SE, but from what I've seen regarding their recent actions, or lack thereof, what you wrote makes the most sense among basically anything else I've read here. Unfortunately, if it's true, then there's no particularly easy solution. However, I've found that to solve a problem, first you need to acknowledge there's a problem, then determine what exactly the problem is. I believe your scenario is, at least to some extent, what the basic problem may be at SE. Understanding the problem better can hopefully lead to some reasonable solution in the future. | |
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| Oct 13, 2019 at 17:23 | history | answered | user102937 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |