More Proof that Discourse Sucks
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Perhaps it needs to be renamed to “What the FAQ?”
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That's the community effort at providing a FAQ. Here's the Discourse default FAQ. Not even a single question mark on the entire page.
Holy moly, that's not a FAQ, that's the Ten Commandments. Ok, eight. Eight Commandments.And where the community FAQ made me chuckle, this makes me sad.
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Did you see... http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/is-the-faq-a-joke/283 ?
Seen it, didn't read it so far. Wanted to keep it for a rainy day ;-)
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not having a help button in the editor is a step back from CS
Except in those cases where the editor didn't work at all, and you had to use html to even get a blank line...
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Except in those cases where the editor didn't work at all, and you had to use html to even get a blank line...
...and it was still more sane and convenient than the Markdown/BBCode/HTML mashup on here...
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Yes, in the Netherlands we call those "alfastudenten" (or "alfa's" for short). Math, CS, physics etc. is "beta's"…
…neither 'alpha' (humanities-ish but a bit more restricted) or 'beta' ('real' science) becomes 'gamma'...
Umm… Does that strike anyone else as a little "Brave New World"ish ??
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You can sure tell who it was who came up with the labelling.
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Umm… Does that strike anyone else as a little "Brave New World"ish ??
It's just the labels.
Most of the ministries over here also have 1984-esque abbreviatons. For a time we had the Ministry of Justice which was "minjuist", i.e. min for ministry and juist means 'just', 'correct', 'proper', or in general anything that is the way things are supposed to be (you could well call pagination 'juist' if you're a non-Atwoodian). It had its website at
minjuist.nl
. It's since been merged with one of the wiretapping organisations into the "Ministry of Security and Justice" which manages to sound even more ominous.Oddly, we (at least at my school but this should be nationwide) had to read all those books for English class in high school, so I have no idea what the goverment's PR department is smoking but it must be something good.
There's not actually anything sinister going on (beyond normal government and business operations of course) so why they'd choose names like that is beyond me.
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This is one of the reasons I read The Register because they have a way of taking the proverbial out of it all. The Ministry of Justice here is frequently referred to as the Ministry of Fun, for example. Sidesteps doubleplus good thoughtcrime.