His bogus familiarity is neither deserved nor welcome.

tar

So, uh, what with Discosearch being broken; and for that matter, the 900 threads which DC "helpfully" marked as read for me, I have no idea if this has come up before, but:

Threatening emails from Jeff Atwood

I just received the following threat in private email from Jeff Atwood. I have no intention of corresponding privately with Mr Atwood, so I reproduce his message here. Mr Atwood starts with a gre...

My synopsis of what transpired:
4. Some math guy gets caught out by bikeshedding/design churn on math.stackexchange.
8. atwood accuses guy of Doing it Wrong™
15. atwood sends guy a patronizing private message
16. guy takes offense to atwood; goes public with message
23. attwood → guy: "NO U"; guy → attwood: "NO U**emphasized text"
42. lather, rinse and repeat a few times; garnish with sage and tarragon.
Seems like an eerily familiar behaviour pattern to me...

Filed under: markdown wai u no renumber my list this one time, eh?

Gribnit

UX issue found, buried, lost.

Lorne Kates

Bug report: Discourse has too many bridges. Why do we need so many? It's an unmaintainable hellscape of 90s UX. Too many bridges means too many choices and possible paths. Someone might Do It Wrong.

Solution: Burn as many bridges as possible, so that there is only The One True Way left.

Filed under: And that One True Install will be meta.derp

blakeyrat

Jeff Atwood is a dick, but so is everybody on that site who assumes having a high "score" makes you some kind of genius superhero.

tar

It's like some kind of black hole of superdickery which is collapsing in on itself.

boomzilla

What about calculating super-villain?

Lorne Kates

@blakeyrat said:

Jeff Atwood is a dick, but so is everybody on that site who assumes having a high "score" makes you some kind of genius superhero.

http://i.imgur.com/GeudVsk.png

Gribnit

K-k-k-kombo! Yes, I am suggesting that you are affiliated with the KKK!

Lorne Kates

@Gribnit said:

K-k-k-kombo! Yes, I am suggesting that you are affiliated with the KKK!

I'm actually affiliated with every group. KKK, girl scouts, muffin of the week club, Hetro-Normative Turtle Alliance. All of them. It really gums up the databases of the secret profilers cabal (whom I am also a member of).

Filed under: Plus, with all these newsletters and pamphlets, I never have to buy toilet paper again.

loopback0

Has @bra-cox made it into the 5% mostly from posting in one topic?

loopback0

I first read that as

KKK girl scouts

which was funnier

Lorne Kates

Apparently Discourse isn't a to accusing people of being murderous trans-phobes.

And now to test to see if my greasemonkey script for insert a "tag" works: [key]Ctrl[/key] [key]`[/key]

Filed under: joke here

Lorne Kates

@loopback0 said:

I first read that as

KKK girl scouts

which was funnier

"We only sell the vanilla cookies"

Rhywden

Good grief. Is it really so hard to add a checkbox somewhere in the user profile which determines whether you want to use the "submit comment upon hitting enter" or not?

cartman82

Oh boy, that OP sounds about the most mathiest of math nerds ever. Read his post in a nasal pedantic tone of voice for the full effect.

Re: the flame war.

Interesting. A normal user would have been slapped into oblivion a long time ago. But because this guy is apparently a well known math genius, Atwood is wringing his hands trying to get him to properly use this user unfriendly editor without escalating the situation.

Nice find.

boomzilla

@Lorne_Kates said:

@blakeyrat said:
Jeff Atwood is a dick, but so is everybody on that site who assumes having a high "score" makes you some kind of genius superhero.

http://i.imgur.com/GeudVsk.png

Hah, losers...

err...wait.

boomzilla

@Rhywden said:

Is it really so hard to add a checkbox somewhere in the user profile which determines whether you want to use the "submit comment upon hitting enter" or not?

Of course not. But this guy is, like, an expert on the psychology of users and user interfaces. There's probably even a blog post pointing out how hitting enter is good for creating constructive comments, complete with dozens of comments confirming his genius.

fbmac

An open letter to Jeff Atwood

Dear Mr. Atwood, I have been an active user on Math.SE for several months now. I have enjoyed participation in the website together with the interaction with other mathematicians that it has broug...

Onyx

Second paragraph:

nontrivial

Ok, not a fake, now I can keep reading.

Filed under: Mathematicians adore the word "trivial", don't they?

FrostCat

@tar said:

Filed under: markdown wai u no renumber my list this one time, eh?

Not a blank line before list?

Boner

Yes, yes, but are they paying**emphasized text customers?

cartman82

@Onyx said:

Filed under: Mathematicians adore the word "trivial", don't they?

My math teacher at college couldn't say "r", so this came out "tvivial". Everything was tvivial with that guy.

Captain

I know Robin Chapman from sci.math. He's a big deal in the internet math community (also a very nice guy).

Oh, this is 4 year old drama. yawn

Maciejasjmj

And another one.

My letter of resignation

I have just submitted my resignation as a moderator on this website to Jeff Atwood. I would like to use this thread to explain my reasons. When I make a significant time commitment to a given

Apparently, Atwood liked to go around the whole community moderators thing and just Jeff things around his way.

loopback0

At least it didn't get Jeffed into Oblivion.

Although Discourse being the steaming pile of incompetence that it is, that link just loads as a white screen.

HardwareGeek

@loopback0 said:

that link just loads as a white screen

Stupid, worthless clickjacking/tracking. Why is this even a thing? Epeen? Badges for how many people clicked your link? How about badges for how many people clicked the link, failed to be redirected to the target, said "Fuck it," and gave up? "Discourse fucked my link" s.

loopback0

Fuck knows. I'd not mind it if it fucking worked properly. But I guess that applies to most of Dischorse.

HardwareGeek

@loopback0 said:

I'd not mind it if it fucking worked properly.

I'm certainly not a fan of clicktracking in general. Internal to this site, meh; I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Tracking external clicks; don't do that. Taking the most basic of possible browser functionality — following a link — that should Just Work™ and hijacking it in a way that completely breaks it (especially for no good reason) — the developer that implemented that should be shot dead on sight.

Filed under: Just venting; not promoting actual violence, although the "developer" should never be allowed near a computer again.

loopback0

@HardwareGeek said:

Taking the most basic of possible browser functionality ... that should Just Work™ and hijacking it in a way completely breaks it (especially for no good reason)