Discovered this on the door of a CS professor's office

[Imran Siddiqui]

You regularly inject yourself into a clique on this site and refer to the group as "we" ("we pwned you"). You align yourself with the others in the group and you repeat what everyone else is saying. If enough of you repeat it it becomes true to you. It's an echo chamber and blatant example of groupthink.

Seriously. It's like high school bull****.

[Asher]

Coding some app that happens to be used in education doesn't make you an expert at anything involving education.

I'm not a coder, I'm the lead. I haven't coded for a few years at work.

That means I'm regularly in contact with schools and districts to see how they use the software, where it is effective, where it needs work, and then design features to match the prevailing pedagogy. It doesn't make me an expert (I work with several PhDs who are, literally, experts in the field). But it does mean I'm more of an authority on it than someone like HC is.

[Sava]

I'm not a coder, I'm the lead. I haven't coded for a few years at work.

Well Hello Mister Fancy Pants!

But it does mean I'm more of an authority on it than someone like HC is.

You both know didley-squat.

[kentonio]

Asher, your worst case scenario is some stupid truther who makes robotic slinkies at the same university as me might say mean things about me because I made fun of his ridiculous belief in a conspiracy theory on the internet, a belief that he very publicly advertises and is widely regarded as pants-on-head retarded. And that somehow this could hurt me despite my excellent relationship with virtually all of the faculty who've ever met me face-to-face. Okay. I appreciate your concern. I'm not worried.

What happens when this guy turns out to be a highly respected professor amongst the faculty (despite his eccentricity) and he mentions to his friends and colleagues that some mouthy student is trying to humiliate him on social media? You think your 'excellent relationship' with the faculty matters a damn to them in comparison to a man they may have spent years working with? Possibly even more damaging is simply the reputation you could get as a student who thinks it's funny to try and humiliate a faculty member. Even if they all hate him and think he's a nutjob, the idea of a student embarrassing a faculty member would still paint a target on your head.

Seriously dude, it was a really stupid thing to do, and if you have any sense you'll delete it before it blows back on you (if it hasn't already).

[giblets]

Sally Bercow, a Z-list celeb, stuck her oar in recently when a high profile person here was accused of abusing children and all she said on twitter was:

‘Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *Innocent face*’

That tweet cost her £15K compensation to him, plus a 'six figure' legal bill...

There is nothing to be gained by unnecessarily sticking your head up above the parapet. Clearly you've done it to look cool with your peers, when all you've really done is risk unwanted attention from people that could potentially cause you problems in the future...

That's just because your country has insane libel laws.

[Asher]

That's just because your country has insane libel laws.

his country has insane libel laws?

/me dies a little.

[Sava]

That tweet cost her £15K compensation to him, plus a 'six figure' legal bill...

As if I needed another reason to never go to the UK

[giblets]

his country has insane libel laws?

/me dies a little.

Yes... are you saying it's actually sane to make someone cough up 15k for a tweet or are you claiming America's libel laws are somehow worse?

[kentonio]

As if I needed another reason to never go to the UK

It's worth mentioning that Sarah Bercow is the wife of a prominent Tory politician (Speaker of the House), so that tweet was judged to be based on her having inside knowledge of the events and putting the innocent mans name into the public sphere.

Also the UK is ****ing awesome.

[kentonio]

UK! UK! UK!

Any country with a culture of heavy drinking and loose morals has a right to be rabidly patriotic.

[Sava]

It's worth mentioning that Sarah Bercow is the wife of a prominent Tory politician (Speaker of the House), so that tweet was judged to be based on her having inside knowledge of the events and putting the innocent mans name into the public sphere.

Nevertheless, the tweet itself didn't say anything about that scandal.

Also the UK is ****ing awesome.

Wrong.

At minimum, freedom of speech is necessary to be in the "awesome" category.

[Kuciwalker]

Britain is just a small island that doesn't make anything anyone else wants to buy.

[Sava]

Britain is just a small island that doesn't make anything anyone else wants to buy.

Big deal. China makes everything.

[Kuciwalker]

It's not just the picture, it's the commentary.

Come on, Kuci, you have to admit it's a stupid thing for him to do.

I can confidently say that the expected negative repercussions are so close to zero as makes no difference.

Moreover, you are ignoring that he engaged in the LAUDABLE act of shaming people who deserve to be shamed. If this gets publicity and embarrasses the professor, good! This really isn't much different from the professor being a neo-Nazi or a Communist.

[Asher]

The sour apple doesn't fall far from the privileged tree.