We used to have a tag called !ask which was designed to tell people the basics of how to ask a good question.
The problem was that we saw a lot of users abusing this tag. As soon as someone asked a less-than-perfect question in our community, other members would throw themselves at the keyboard to !ask that stupid user right in their stupid face.
This didn't harmonize well with the kind of culture we're trying to build, and so we decided (in https://github.com/python-discord/organisation/issues/270) to remove this tag from the bot.
So why does this issue exist?
Well, we might be open to reintroducing the tag (or a similar tag of a different name), but we need to do something to try to prevent it from being abused. If you'd like to have a go at this, this is the issue for you.
So what do I do?
You need to solve the puzzle of how we can create a toxicity-proof version of this tag. Here are some ideas:
- Perhaps the tag needs to be shorter, to ensure people actually read it.
- Perhaps the tag can be "de-weaponized" so that it's less applicable to situations where the user has "made a mistake". The old version had a number of bullet points which served to instruct the user on what not to do. That means, whenever a member did something that the tag said not to do, you could throw the tag in their face.
!ask is a pretty common tag to have on other support servers, and some of these communities may not share our emphasis on a toxicity-free environment. This means that some of our users may unwittingly be bringing some of their bad habits from other communities into ours. Maybe this can be remedied by simply renaming the tag to something else?
We used to have a tag called
!askwhich was designed to tell people the basics of how to ask a good question.The problem was that we saw a lot of users abusing this tag. As soon as someone asked a less-than-perfect question in our community, other members would throw themselves at the keyboard to
!askthat stupid user right in their stupid face.This didn't harmonize well with the kind of culture we're trying to build, and so we decided (in https://github.com/python-discord/organisation/issues/270) to remove this tag from the bot.
So why does this issue exist?
Well, we might be open to reintroducing the tag (or a similar tag of a different name), but we need to do something to try to prevent it from being abused. If you'd like to have a go at this, this is the issue for you.
So what do I do?
You need to solve the puzzle of how we can create a toxicity-proof version of this tag. Here are some ideas:
!askis a pretty common tag to have on other support servers, and some of these communities may not share our emphasis on a toxicity-free environment. This means that some of our users may unwittingly be bringing some of their bad habits from other communities into ours. Maybe this can be remedied by simply renaming the tag to something else?