Alert: Sophia Is Not The Topic
sophia is not the topic
Pretty sure I said I don't want the thread for this story - which is not about Sophia and doesn't even feature Sophia in a prominent role - to become a Sophia debate. I, and many others, would like to engage with things germane to the story in the thread for the story.
I'm not opposed to people posting their reactions to my thoughts, even if they disagree, are wrongheaded, uncharitable, actively mocking, or even violating site rules. The use of the Funny rating to mock the post is a direct violation of the Terms of Service, @Empty Shelf. I quote here:
The reason I didn't report it was because the only person wronged was me and I didn't want to make a big deal out of it, not because it's okay. I didn't want moderator action to disrupt a thread I was already worried about going off the rails. Had you done this to anyone else I would have reported it. I'm telling you this because, as site staff, I have a duty to make sure you know what the rules are, and can refrain from doing it again to someone who cares.
But you don't get to respond to each others' reactions. You don't get to debate Sophia until and unless the finer details of her characterization become relevant to the thread. Sophia is not relevant to the thread.
I'm willing to wander afield, we can have fun in here, we don't have to stay strictly on-topic. But arguments, while not necessarily acrimonious, often are on the Internet. The first posts in response proved that case - the first came from a fantasy realm and the second dripped with mockery (thank you, @Winged One, @Spectral Waltz, and @Reese for responding politely even if you disagreed with me, as well as Maimakteri Ann if you haven't left yet).
It's not fun to be treated like that. And while there's a degree of it I have to expose myself to to present any creative work, I have no obligation to when it's a controversial position barely relevant at best to the story. I was asked to elaborate on my view of Sophia, and I did, but that's where it ends. I knew this would happen, I specifically requested it not, and that request has been ignored.
Please don't continue to ignore it.
I'm not opposed to people posting their reactions to my thoughts, even if they disagree, are wrongheaded, uncharitable, actively mocking, or even violating site rules. The use of the Funny rating to mock the post is a direct violation of the Terms of Service, @Empty Shelf. I quote here:
The Funny rating was intended to laugh at peoples' jokes, not to mock their opinions. Using it to take shots at people is explicitly against the rules of SV. We have acted on this before, it's just usually hard to prove. I was suspicious the moment you Funny-ed the post but thought I had scattered in a bit of humour, maybe you were laughing at that. Then you posted to disagree with me and confirmed the reason you had used the rating was not to laugh at the jokes I sprinkled in, but to mock me.The Rules said:
The reason I didn't report it was because the only person wronged was me and I didn't want to make a big deal out of it, not because it's okay. I didn't want moderator action to disrupt a thread I was already worried about going off the rails. Had you done this to anyone else I would have reported it. I'm telling you this because, as site staff, I have a duty to make sure you know what the rules are, and can refrain from doing it again to someone who cares.
But you don't get to respond to each others' reactions. You don't get to debate Sophia until and unless the finer details of her characterization become relevant to the thread. Sophia is not relevant to the thread.
I'm willing to wander afield, we can have fun in here, we don't have to stay strictly on-topic. But arguments, while not necessarily acrimonious, often are on the Internet. The first posts in response proved that case - the first came from a fantasy realm and the second dripped with mockery (thank you, @Winged One, @Spectral Waltz, and @Reese for responding politely even if you disagreed with me, as well as Maimakteri Ann if you haven't left yet).
It's not fun to be treated like that. And while there's a degree of it I have to expose myself to to present any creative work, I have no obligation to when it's a controversial position barely relevant at best to the story. I was asked to elaborate on my view of Sophia, and I did, but that's where it ends. I knew this would happen, I specifically requested it not, and that request has been ignored.
Please don't continue to ignore it.
To clarify: Sophia's deep inner heart is not topical to the thread. I presented a position, and I'm not against people responding to that position or presenting to their own, but we are not debating it. We're not arguing it. There are places to have that discussion and they are not this place, I don't have the time or energy to engage with them, I'm still trying to muster up the time and energy to engage with my own thread and making it less pleasant isn't helping.
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