Technical writers don’t have any strong online forums, I’ve been working on cultivating reddit.com/r/technicalwriting as our main watering hole.
I’ve recently started browsing reddit.com/r/webdev and am finding it to be a pretty lively source of web development discussion.
Twitter gets a lot of flak but I find it helpful for getting a pulse on different communities.
Aside:
> I get most of the value from HN from what you guys have to say.
If you’d like to cultivate HN as a place where women and non-binary people also contribute, consider using “you all” instead of “you guys”.
Edit: Looks like I’m getting downvoted for the “you guys” comment, which I expected. I know that it’s usually just an old habit but I also know that being thoughtful and correcting that old habit means a lot to some people. Considering that we’re talking about online communities it seemed relevant to bring attention to here.
I thought "guys" was accepted as gender-neutral now, like "dude".
That said, in trying to force congruence in my idiolect, I once referred to a woman as "this guy", and it felt so wrong. It still feels wrong. My mind reels in disgust as I'm typing these words right now. It doesn't work. So maybe we need to go the other way. But why does "dude" work?
Also, everyone becoming agender when? It's the best way to cut the knot and have egalitarianism. Seriously I mean come on already.
Unless the concept of gender is a psychological technology that gives people with gender dysphoria a target to aim at while they reconcile their inscrutable brain-body disagreements and so abolishing gender would harm their therapy. Unless² those disagreements stem from our still having genders. Let's hope that what it is because damn. Unless³ gender is also a biologically-salient component of people to the point where we can't ignore it without it resurfacing and re-creating the problems we tried to get rid of it to begin with for. I hate everything.[0]
Re "you guys", this is a great suggestion. It takes little to do so, and it's a simple way to show courtesy to others.
I also appreciate the manner in which you suggested it. You didn't condemn or assume someone was anyone in bad faith; you simply pointed out a way that they might want to be purposeful about their words.
I’ve recently started browsing reddit.com/r/webdev and am finding it to be a pretty lively source of web development discussion.
Twitter gets a lot of flak but I find it helpful for getting a pulse on different communities.
Aside:
> I get most of the value from HN from what you guys have to say.
If you’d like to cultivate HN as a place where women and non-binary people also contribute, consider using “you all” instead of “you guys”.
Edit: Looks like I’m getting downvoted for the “you guys” comment, which I expected. I know that it’s usually just an old habit but I also know that being thoughtful and correcting that old habit means a lot to some people. Considering that we’re talking about online communities it seemed relevant to bring attention to here.