Why is the stack exchange telling that i entered?
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Explanation:
There have been accusations of elitism against SO since time immemorial. Basically, so long as there have been standards, there have been accusations of elitism. That is after all what standards are for.
But these accusations against specific groups of people are new. And of a very different caliber.
Hostility against newbies is borne of terrible newbie questions. This is a problem, not of the community, but of Stack Exchange and their unwillingness to prevent low-quality questions from entering the system. And their willingness to side with askers of low-quality questions over those who provide high-quality answers. SE forces us to constantly interact with a stream of garbage; that will inevitably create hostility.
Stop the stream of garbage at its source, and the problem disappears. The community need change nothing; only SE needs to be changed.
By contrast, hostility towards "women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups" is a completely different problem. This is a problem borne of people in the community, and it is best solved at the community level. Such hostility appears in very different ways.
People generally don't go around downvoting a post because they think a woman wrote it. Such hostility is primarily expressed through comments that aren't reasonably gender-neutral or that use various words and/or phrasing that might be offensive or off-putting to certain groups of people.
Even if we did consider "hostility against newbies" to be a problem of the community rather than of SE (or the newbies themselves; let's not forget about them), that doesn't justify putting these two very different problems in the same post. Solutions for the anti-newbie problem are going to be very different from the solutions to the other problem.
All the gender-neutral writing in the world won't make you respect somebody who refuses to read documentation. Anti-bias training will not in any way make you ignore the 10,000th iteration of "hey, I don't know how linking works." And so on.
Indeed, merging these two cases brings with it the implication that SE thinks that "women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups" are responsible for a lot of the garbage questions that routinely attract the ire of the populace. Is that an implication that SE wants to make?
Different problems which require different approaches and different solutions should not be construed to be the same problem.There have been accusations of elitism against SO since time immemorial. Basically, so long as there have been standards, there have been accusations of elitism. That is after all what standards are for.
But these accusations against specific groups of people are new. And of a very different caliber.
Hostility against newbies is borne of terrible newbie questions. This is a problem, not of the community, but of Stack Exchange and their unwillingness to prevent low-quality questions from entering the system. And their willingness to side with askers of low-quality questions over those who provide high-quality answers. SE forces us to constantly interact with a stream of garbage; that will inevitably create hostility.
Stop the stream of garbage at its source, and the problem disappears. The community need change nothing; only SE needs to be changed.
By contrast, hostility towards "women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups" is a completely different problem. This is a problem borne of people in the community, and it is best solved at the community level. Such hostility appears in very different ways.
People generally don't go around downvoting a post because they think a woman wrote it. Such hostility is primarily expressed through comments that aren't reasonably gender-neutral or that use various words and/or phrasing that might be offensive or off-putting to certain groups of people.
Even if we did consider "hostility against newbies" to be a problem of the community rather than of SE (or the newbies themselves; let's not forget about them), that doesn't justify putting these two very different problems in the same post. Solutions for the anti-newbie problem are going to be very different from the solutions to the other problem.
All the gender-neutral writing in the world won't make you respect somebody who refuses to read documentation. Anti-bias training will not in any way make you ignore the 10,000th iteration of "hey, I don't know how linking works." And so on.
Indeed, merging these two cases brings with it the implication that SE thinks that "women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups" are responsible for a lot of the garbage questions that routinely attract the ire of the populace. Is that an implication that SE wants to make?
Different problems which require different approaches and different solutions should not be construed to be the same problem.