Timeline for FAQ: When is it appropriate to "be a dick" on Skeptics?
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| Apr 1, 2015 at 3:38 | comment | added | Online User | When someone thinks my answer is offensive, I'd tell him It's not a dick, don't take it too hard!! | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 11:36 | comment | added | hunter2 | How about "When the question is exceedingly poorly formed, or thinly veiled flamebait." I agree that 'unnecessary roughness' is ineffective persuasion, but the QA format in general (and this SE in particular) seem to attract a lot of people who want to ask questions that are either 'settled' (but with conscientious dissenters - eg, some religious questions) or settled (if you read a textbook or spend 10 min on Wiki/Goog/etc | |
| Aug 23, 2011 at 2:45 | answer | added | going | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 9:32 | history | edited | SklivvzMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2011 at 12:14 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | It should also be noted that Phil has drawn heavy criticism for this “wishy-washy” statement from the skeptics community because it’s allegedly attacking a straw-man (namely, the criticism was that Phil didn’t name specific, verifiable cases of bad behaviour, instead delivering an overly broad accusation that makes it impossible to defend against). | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 20:48 | history | edited | Shog9Mod |
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| May 14, 2011 at 19:07 | comment | added | Larry OBrien | I felt that some of the comments on my question skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3180/… were a little peevish. But then I said to myself "If the site's called 'skeptics,' you can't really get ticked off at someone for being pedantic." | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 16:36 | comment | added | Oddthinking Mod | I didn't have any in particular in mind, and I am a little loathe to pick anyone out, but I think the Internet is not short of examples of name-calling. A typical example would be skeptics who call believers idiots. | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 15:38 | comment | added | Glen Wheeler | @Oddthinking Do you have any particular 'dickish' examples in mind that you can link to? | |
| Mar 28, 2011 at 22:36 | comment | added | Oddthinking Mod | Ivo, I don't think anyone is arguing that we should protect someone's sunk cost investing time in a false idea. It is about the attitude we take when we do so. | |
| Mar 28, 2011 at 11:48 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse | True, but in some sense aren't you 'a dick' when you try to falsify ones life work with an unfounded hypothesis? | |
| Mar 21, 2011 at 12:04 | answer | added | Konrad Rudolph | timeline score: 17 | |
| Mar 12, 2011 at 15:16 | history | edited | Robert Cartaino |
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| Mar 4, 2011 at 23:32 | vote | accept | OddthinkingMod | ||
| Feb 25, 2011 at 13:22 | answer | added | Richard Stelling | timeline score: 18 | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 7:40 | comment | added | Mad Scientist Mod | If someone wants to mock creationists, flat-earthers or vaccine-denialists he/she should just get a blog. This site should be objective and polite, as Robert explained in his excellent answer. | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 3:52 | answer | added | Robert Cartaino | timeline score: 119 | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 2:23 | history | asked | OddthinkingMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |