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> Company will no longer flag students who use words like “gay” and “lesbian” online, citing greater acceptance of queer kids in schools Which words were you p

> Company will no longer flag students who use words like “gay” and “lesbian” online, citing greater acceptance of queer kids in schools Which words were you previously supposed to use for these cases?

yamtaddle 4y ago
The flagging was probably because 90+% of occurrence of these words—certainly gay, maybe also lesbian—in a school setting were, until fairly recently(? maybe still? I dunno what The Youths are up to) intended as insults or hate speech. These tools appear to have been for monitoring assignments and chats (nb. that kids are plenty smart enough to use shared-editing assignments as chats, too, even if chats aren't available, or sometimes they think draft assignments will be less-surveilled) [EDIT] And, presumably, teachers would ignore the flagging if you'd used the words in, say, a school assignment, for a good reason. [EDIT2] I'm not complaining about the downvotes, but, could someone please explain WTF? I truly have no clue.
- kelseyfrog 4y ago
  I don't think it's that bad of a comment, but "probably because 90+%" is a LOT of hedging to make a point. I could see it doing better if the comment tried to back up the claim with something a bit more substantive or even an anecdote (despite the obvious flaws with reasoning from anecdotes, they can still be fun to read in a way that adds to the conversation). Then again maybe I'm missing the same thing you are.
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- the_only_law 4y ago
  > I'm not complaining about the downvotes, but, could someone please explain WTF? I truly have no clue. You made a post in a culture war thread. You could post the most benign thing ever and people will find a way to be upset by it.
cookie_monsta 4y ago
If it's anything like my high school was, there would be another 50 options for those words, all of them more offensive and none of them registered in some text matching database. Another band aid tech solution to a social problem

yamtaddle 4y ago

The flagging was probably because 90+% of occurrence of these words—certainly gay, maybe also lesbian—in a school setting were, until fairly recently(? maybe still? I dunno what The Youths are up to) intended as insults or hate speech. These tools appear to have been for monitoring assignments and chats (nb. that kids are plenty smart enough to use shared-editing assignments as chats, too, even if chats aren't available, or sometimes they think draft assignments will be less-surveilled) [EDIT] And, presumably, teachers would ignore the flagging if you'd used the words in, say, a school assignment, for a good reason. [EDIT2] I'm not complaining about the downvotes, but, could someone please explain WTF? I truly have no clue.

kelseyfrog 4y ago
I don't think it's that bad of a comment, but "probably because 90+%" is a LOT of hedging to make a point. I could see it doing better if the comment tried to back up the claim with something a bit more substantive or even an anecdote (despite the obvious flaws with reasoning from anecdotes, they can still be fun to read in a way that adds to the conversation). Then again maybe I'm missing the same thing you are.
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the_only_law 4y ago
> I'm not complaining about the downvotes, but, could someone please explain WTF? I truly have no clue. You made a post in a culture war thread. You could post the most benign thing ever and people will find a way to be upset by it.

cookie_monsta 4y ago

If it's anything like my high school was, there would be another 50 options for those words, all of them more offensive and none of them registered in some text matching database. Another band aid tech solution to a social problem