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Personal opinion here, but I think tagging 233 posts (latest count) Pejorative language is self-defeating your noble argument that we dissuade users from seeking expressions which are used to attack, demean, and disrespect one another.

I don’t think it is a healthy thing for the questioner, nor good for our site or the larger social context, for us to be forever providing people with rude words to use to commit verbal violence upon one another, even if it is only in their own head.

Frankly, I'm getting a little weary of seeing twenty, thirty similar posts all lumped together on the active page. If anything, this unrelentless mission to tag every request for an insult as "pejorative" is giving a false impression of the site to new users. Think about it, by evidencing man's low morals, you are giving it more prominence, and perhaps, encouraging new users to believe that these type of requests are the most popular on the site.

Yesterday I tried to counteract this misleading impression by creating a new tag nonsubjective whose definition is: Undistorted by emotion or personal bias, having neither positive nor negative connotations. I only tagged twenty three questions, but there are many requests for neutral terms, for words that describe a phenomenon dispassionately without overtly negative or positive connotations. Let's try to keep things in perspective, by all means tag new SWR as pejorative when and where they occur but why actively dredge up the past, if you yourself are disgusted?

After tagging the first 201 questions I could find, I quit in disgust

Actually come to think of it, you are making it easier for visitors to find insulting terms, whereas before many derogatory questions were simply tagged single-word-requests, now users will have immediate access to a rich source of negative terms in one easy place.

Personal opinion here, but I think tagging 233 posts (latest count) Pejorative language is self-defeating your noble argument that we dissuade users from seeking expressions which are used to attack, demean, and disrespect one another.

I don’t think it is a healthy thing for the questioner, nor good for our site or the larger social context, for us to be forever providing people with rude words to use to commit verbal violence upon one another, even if it is only in their own head.

Frankly, I'm getting a little weary of seeing twenty, thirty similar posts all lumped together on the active page. If anything, this unrelentless mission to tag every request for an insult as "pejorative" is giving a false impression of the site to new users. Think about it, by evidencing man's low morals, you are giving it more prominence, and perhaps, encouraging new users to believe that these type of requests are the most popular on the site.

Yesterday I tried to counteract this misleading impression by creating a new tag nonsubjective whose definition is: Undistorted by emotion or personal bias, having neither positive nor negative connotations. I only tagged twenty three questions, but there are many requests for neutral terms, for words that describe a phenomenon dispassionately without overtly negative or positive connotations. Let's try to keep things in perspective, by all means tag new SWR as pejorative when and where they occur but why actively dredge up the past, if you yourself are disgusted?

After tagging the first 201 questions I could find, I quit in disgust

Personal opinion here, but I think tagging 233 posts (latest count) Pejorative language is self-defeating your noble argument that we dissuade users from seeking expressions which are used to attack, demean, and disrespect one another.

I don’t think it is a healthy thing for the questioner, nor good for our site or the larger social context, for us to be forever providing people with rude words to use to commit verbal violence upon one another, even if it is only in their own head.

Frankly, I'm getting a little weary of seeing twenty, thirty similar posts all lumped together on the active page. If anything, this unrelentless mission to tag every request for an insult as "pejorative" is giving a false impression of the site to new users. Think about it, by evidencing man's low morals, you are giving it more prominence, and perhaps, encouraging new users to believe that these type of requests are the most popular on the site.

Yesterday I tried to counteract this misleading impression by creating a new tag nonsubjective whose definition is: Undistorted by emotion or personal bias, having neither positive nor negative connotations. I only tagged twenty three questions, but there are many requests for neutral terms, for words that describe a phenomenon dispassionately without overtly negative or positive connotations. Let's try to keep things in perspective, by all means tag new SWR as pejorative when and where they occur but why actively dredge up the past, if you yourself are disgusted?

After tagging the first 201 questions I could find, I quit in disgust

Actually come to think of it, you are making it easier for visitors to find insulting terms, whereas before many derogatory questions were simply tagged single-word-requests, now users will have immediate access to a rich source of negative terms in one easy place.

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Mari-Lou A
  • 92.9k
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  • 28
  • 74

Personal opinion here, but I think tagging 233 posts (latest count) Pejorative language is self-defeating your noble argument that we dissuade users from seeking expressions which are used to attack, demean, and disrespect one another.

I don’t think it is a healthy thing for the questioner, nor good for our site or the larger social context, for us to be forever providing people with rude words to use to commit verbal violence upon one another, even if it is only in their own head.

Frankly, I'm getting a little weary of seeing twenty, thirty similar posts all lumped together on the active page. If anything, this unrelentless mission to tag every request for an insult as "pejorative" is giving a false impression of the site to new users. Think about it, by evidencing man's low morals, you are giving it more prominence, and perhaps, encouraging new users to believe that these type of requests are the most popular on the site.

Yesterday I tried to counteract this misleading impression by creating a new tag nonsubjective whose definition is: Undistorted by emotion or personal bias, having neither positive nor negative connotations. I only tagged twenty three questions, but there are many requests for neutral terms, for words that describe a phenomenon dispassionately without overtly negative or positive connotations. Let's try to keep things in perspective, by all means tag new SWR as pejorative when and where they occur but why actively dredge up the past, if you yourself are disgusted?

After tagging the first 201 questions I could find, I quit in disgust