Timeline for Can we be respectful?
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| Jun 19, 2014 at 20:20 | comment | added | Benjamin Dickman | It seems this concern presents itself again more recently; I do not know about can, but I'm sure that we (all) should be more respectful. | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 18:47 | answer | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 13:45 | comment | added | JRN | Related: meta.matheducators.stackexchange.com/q/267/77 | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 6:50 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | @MadScientist It doesn't surprise me to hear that Skeptics had to come up with rules for this one! I flagged the various comments with the intention that what you describe in your last sentence didn't happen (and, as far as I could see, it didn't). I regard the question as totally on topic and there are some very good answers. However, the now-deleted comments were leading the topic towards the definitely off-topic theme of "Can Mathematicians be religious?" and I think that has no place here. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 20:59 | comment | added | user191 | Religious topics on secular sites tend to attract this kind of trouble. I'm a moderator on Skeptics where we had similar issues, religion is simply a topic with huge potential for conflict. The solution we adopted was to declare purely religous questions as off-topic, and to moderate comments aggressively on on-topic questions on controversial topics. The huge problem is that one not-really-offensive but non-constructive comment is very likely to draw an at least borderline offensive comment from the opposing side, and then the cycle continues. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 20:41 | comment | added | quid Mod | I protected the question (at least for the moment, but we can discuss this). For those that do not yet know what this means: it is a very mild thing to do and only prevents new users (<10 on the site) from adding answer; even one highrep user can do this normally. I also deleted the remaining flagged comments. That being said, I think we should collectively dicuss (but not in this thread) how much comment deletion we want on this site in general. I merely did this right away since many comments got already deletd and so it felt more consistent to delete all. Also they were offtopic. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 19:31 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | @BrianRushton I thought the question a good question, and carefully phrased. It was the comments that some were leaving that I was unhappy with. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 17:07 | comment | added | Brian Rushton | I also apologize for writing on a controversial topic. I thought it might be controversial, but I sincerely had this problem in my time at BYU, and the answers are extraordinarily helpful. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 14:25 | comment | added | Brendan W. Sullivan | This is too short to be an answer, so I'll put it here, but ... "Yes". | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 7:23 | history | asked | Andrew Stacey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |