The best road to progress is freedom's road. - JFK
Texas
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...it's best to remember not to burn any bridges, bomb any innocent villagers, or alienate too many other editors. It turns out that alienating people is fairly easy, and un-alienating them is hard. Thus "alienating" immediately falls under the heading of "decisions that are not reversible", and becomes a no-no.
There's just a few simple rules here:
don't call people dickheads (at least not in public)
learn how to apologize when you forgot rule 1
The problem with rule 1 is that it's very easy to do, since you can say "you're a dickhead" in millions of different ways, sometimes without even realizing it, and almost always with a white-hot conviction that you are right.
And the more convinced you are that you are right (and let's face it, you can call just about anybody a dickhead, and you often will be right), the harder it ends up being to apologize afterwards.
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There's one thing people hate even more than being called a dickhead, and that is being called a dickhead in a sanctimonious voice. The first you can apologize for, the second one you won't really get the chance.
Yeah, I've been posting about the gender gap and gendered language and whatnot and then I quoted this guy. Well, if you want consistency I'm going to need a raise.
This user is a feminist, and is annoyed that the first feminist userbox is pink.
About
I mostly work on articles about biochemistry, biophysics, and related topics. I am also interested in STEM education and in issues surrounding diversity in science.
I am not interested in wikilawyering, rules-mongering, and process for the sake of process. This is an encyclopedia, not the world's largest, lamest game of Nomic.