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Then why is there spender rank?

1 sat \ 7 replies \ @ek 25 Jul

You can opt-out, no?

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No. You can opt out of having your name displayed. You cannot opt out of being ranked. Those are different things.

Feel free to blame me for this. Not that I coded or designed it. But that I of all stackers have to tell you this. Shame on me.

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37 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 25 Jul
You can opt out of having your name displayed. You cannot opt out of being ranked.

Fair point, this should also be possible. I forgot about this.

Feel free to blame me for this. Not that I coded or designed it. But that I of all stackers have to tell you this. Shame on me.

FYI, I can probably show you comments where I supported @siggy47 during MSM. He was trying to hide, but the existing privacy settings made that impossible. I did not agree with all the decisions that were made at SN, which may also have been one of the reasons I left. Is that surprising to you?

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Is that surprising to you?

Not at all, but you're very quick to ascribe intent to me. Scream shame on "me, of all stackers"? Yeah bro, that's cool and all, but what do you want? Are you chiding me for not doing a responsible disclosure of something that anyone with primary school knowledge of how ranking works can see? If so then maybe I overestimated everyone's intelligence and I actually am sorry if that is the case. But, you don't get to shame me.

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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @ek 25 Jul

I'm sorry for how this conversation went, but when I ask you about a privacy leak and you respond with "what privacy leak?" while seemingly conveniently leaving out relevant details that you later reveal only after I press further, it doesn't look good.

That's what I'm chiding you for.

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Keeping at it yes? lol.

seemingly conveniently leaving out relevant details

I didn't know this was an interrogation. Or a disclosure. Are you wearing your popo hat right now? I'm sorry dear overlord ek, that I have inconvenienced you.

What really happened is that I assumed that you:

a) know about what can and cannot be opted out of, and
b) That if rank 1 is hidden and rank 2 is not, that you know the lower bound of rank 1.

Chide away, oh chivalrous SN police, protector of integrity. Except, again, you got it wrong.

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180 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 25 Jul

I’m sure this conversation would have gone so much better in person, without all the cascading misunderstandings that are inherent in most written, low-bandwidth online communication.

I think I’m going to take another break from SN.

I hope you guys have fun here without people like me.

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You wouldn't have talked to me in person like that, no. But I don't see what is wrong here. Did I press reply too quick? Maybe. I could have written a long comment. That faulty assumption is on me. However, like I said twice now, and I'll say it again for the last time, people make mistakes. Me too. You too. That's ok. But you're questioning my integrity based on an assumption error. That is not cool. I could do the same back to you and question your integrity because you touched this code and didn't fix it. But I don't, because there is no blame here.

We find ourselves in a culture where money - how much you have/make/spend is important for some reason. I'd gamble that you and I both don't like that. That's the whole context. I honestly thought that you understand the issue; I was already amazed that Simple was asking "who is doing this". Maybe I should have realized from the question itself that I should have approached this differently - with a PR instead of a comment on this thread. But, again, that is no reason to chide me or shame me. I honestly was of the impression that anyone can figure out ranking logic and I was wrong - fine. If that damages my integrity... then how do you talk to anyone anywhere?