Edit - Meta Stack Exchange

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

1

I agree it's a bad idea to dump and run, but the proposed rule changes and management indifference to member input (IMO) seem to make this the only viable option to protest while (maybe) continuing to help ordinary members. I am exploring options and hope for clarity from management (but am not optimistic I'll get it).
– StephenG - Help Ukraine
Commented Oct 18, 2019 at 8:22
@StephenG I think they even stated you're free to disengage. It might be a surprisingly reasonable middle ground: write your post as you normally would, and then when someone complains about a wrong pronoun (especially if it's already they), just disengage. Let the CMs edit if they so choose.
– user622505
Commented Oct 18, 2019 at 8:47
1

But can be forced to use neopronouns
– gdoron
Commented Oct 18, 2019 at 9:35
@gdoron: No, there's always the option of disengaging.
– Cerbrus
Commented Oct 18, 2019 at 9:42
8

But disengagement can selectively be interpreted as an "offense", or so it seems to me. Whether it's considered an accident or deliberate is apparently decided by someone else (and that someone seems to be the offended party, as I understand it, which is problematic). It's a hornet's nest IMO.
– StephenG - Help Ukraine
Commented Oct 18, 2019 at 9:59
1

It can, but the CoC allows it.
– Cerbrus
Commented Oct 18, 2019 at 10:22

Add a comment |

Correct minor typos or mistakes
Clarify meaning without changing it
Add related resources or links
Always respect the author’s intent
Don’t use edits to reply to the author

create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
to make links (use https whenever possible)

<https://example.com>

[example](https://example.com)

<a href="https://example.com">example</a>

formatting help »
answering help »