Timeline for What does "Be Nice" *mean* to you?
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| Mar 21, 2022 at 14:16 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | "Tip of the iceberg" point: lots of questions which could be interpreted as seeking medical advice are answered. Depends on how they are interpreted. About self-help: when you think about it, every question on this site is driven by self-interest. That's ok. That's how we get ahead. You didn't become a neuroscientist without any self-interest. I went to college to try to escape serious poverty. Self-help is ok. Anyway, my point stands. We're not a very friendly site. Occasionally, terribly rude could be an honest impression. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 14:02 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | They're not often given any benefit of a doubt. The main point is that this site is unfriendly, and is rightly perceived as such. Bad example, granted. How unevenly our guidelines are applied also doesn't help the site, though often I'd rather help the person (which would make the site friendlier.) I'm not asking that we not DV and CV, or that we always leave a comment when doing so. I really dislike true homework questions, the ones where no attempt to figure anything was made. The ones who are struggling, I can empathize. Key concept: empathy. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 13:53 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | I do think identification requests are often self-help. Look at the recent spate of "What plant is this?" from someone who took a bunch of photos in Ontario. Do you think they were driven by scientific curiosity, or a desire to label them so he could, I don't know, upload them somewhere? Of interest is how unevenly our guidelines are applied. I actually like helping (most) people; I'd have been terrible at my job(s) if I didn't. Given, poor Q choice. Had I waited, I could have done much better within a day. Some people don't know how to frame a question "scientifically"... | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 9:53 | history | answered | AliceDMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |