“Is this something that just bothers me specifically, or is this something that is a safety concern?”
If it’s something that endangers other people or the environment — throwing rocks off a cliff onto a trail below or building a campfire during a fire ban — Matias suggests reaching out to park officials. But if you’re in a wilderness setting, Mapp suggests acting with empathy & respect, rather than accusation. Start, for example, by learning where the other person is coming from and why they may be acting in a certain way.
Apparently it's now a thing for dinner party hosts to ask their guests for money to help with groceries. Eater reporter Amy McCarthy says that's not OK, and offers some suggestions for cutting costs if you want to host but can't afford to. What's your experience with this? Pick as many answers as apply and share any fun stories in the comments.
tfw some of kid's friends give her actual house plants for her birthday. I mean, she loves plants, but (1) it's close to giving somebody a pet without clearing it in advance, and (2) kid will leave for college in two years, and, um...
4/5/24 — Open 6-9p Mask Recommended. No open drinks, please.
It seems I haven't seen the "netiquette" portmanteau in years. Is 'net passé?
It's now apps; ne pas? I suppose "appliquette" is too much like "appliqué." If we apply ourselves we can stick a better name on good behavior via social media. An obvious choice sounds rude, making it a perfect descriptor for many spaces... just, "socquette."
If someone is CCed in an email you receive, and you respond to that email, it’s common knowledge that you’re supposed to reply all to include the CCed person, right? This is a known thing.
I'd second this. If you're the sort of person who likes mail written to you, rather than the often tangential involvement in receiving a carbon copy of mail to someone else, then you may try to spare others from receiving such carbon copies themselves. Or you might have no strong feelings, and as was already mentioned, your email client's reply button default is just repy-to-sender-only.
Hot take: grosser than taking your shoes off on a flight is following it by putting your feet against window and poking person in front of you with your feet.
Asqueroso 🤮 #etiquette#manners
It’s a frustrating experience for travelers to arrive at their gate only to be told “I’m sorry, you’ll have to check your bag.” Passengers are finding new, and not necessarily ethical, ways of getting to their seat first and, often, to the detriment of the rest of us. Ahead of a busy spring and summer of travel, USA Today’s Christopher Elliott reviews what is, and isn’t, allowed with it comes to boarding a flight early. https://flip.it/KY0oQX #Culture#Travel#Airline#Etiquette#Rudeness
I get this this is an interesting etiquette thing, but in a chat app (slack, etc), I strongly prefer no-salutations before diving into the discussions subject.
So I've got a new #knitting pattern coming out next week, and while I (of course, as a completely unbiased person, ahem) think it's pretty neat, I'm not completely sure about the etiquette about mentioning it in a marketing context here. I mean, part of what I love so much about this space is that I'm not being sold to every minute. But! I love seeing what art people have for sale here too. So what's the feeling here about announcing things like new pattern/art/whatever releases?
Etiquette question. I had a handyman at my house yesterday fixing some things, and he couldn't seem to stop coughing. I should have asked him to put on a mask, but I was wearing a mask and I stayed pretty far away from him. Would it have been impolite to ask him if he had covid? I also felt bad for him because it was cold outside, and I don't think he should have been out there working with that cough. Thoughts?
New research suggests that people overestimate how big a deal it is if they say no to an invitation. "Invitees have exaggerated concerns about how much the decline will anger the inviter, signal that the invitee does not care about the inviter [or] make the inviter unlikely to offer another invitation in the future," the report says. Here's more from NPR. Tell us in the comments if you struggle to say no to invitations.
#Etiquette question for my #COVIDSafe community: If I take the risk of going to a potluck event, is it rude not to bring food, when I won't be unmasking to partake of anyone else's?
We've got 5,000 followers 🎉! To celebrate, we're asking which of these stories that we've previously shared on @Flipboard's The Culture Desk is your favorite — these were all popular picks at the time, and give a good sense of what we're about. We'll link the full stories below. And we want to know what works for you, so please tell us in the comments what you'd like to see more (or less) of.
As an old guy with over twenty years in the accessibility game, a master's degree in instructional design, and a life long aficionado of reading, writing, and all things creative, I offer this opinion: You are doing everything correctly, and I approve completely.
Even without a screenreader, the hashtags break the flow, and render the entire paragraph more difficult to process.
Natural text has a flowing element to it, and the hashtags are little anchors breaking the flow.
Ask any typographer about text flow of different font faces and get ready for a long discourse. These things are known...
In addition, taking the time and space to list hashtags as a closing block provides an opportunity to reflect on what you are trying to communicate. Always a good thing to have thoughtful posts instead of adding more brainless garbage to the web.
So there you have it, in my admittedly over educated and incredibly biased opinion...
When replying to a thread or toot which itself has a number of Hashtags, is it preferable to echo those selfsame tags in the reply, or is that association inferred by way of the connection to the original post?
Question for #AskFedi: Someone posted an awesome image with a great concept, but the alt text leaves out so much context as to make it incomprehensible to non-sighted users.
I'd love to re-post with better alt text. But I don't want to strip credit from the person with the original idea. But I also don't want to "call them out" for the poor alt text.
I can't just post it as a comment; it'd take too many characters. (Alts allow 1500! Comments, only 500.)
"What’s fundamentally missing in our #technology is a sense of #etiquette, a broad set of social norms and expectations which set a baseline of dignity and respect."
🙏🏼 https://d3e.co/wc
@caseorganic shares guidelines for #calmtech in #UX. Thanks, Amber!
After the discovery of a racist account yesterday, @PSiReN went through other accounts on the instance and discovered the instance is a cesspit of racism, including constant use of the N word, and accusations that minorities are criminals.
Therefore Syzito.xyz is defederating from its first instance, @mugicha.club.
What is normal etiquette in these circumstances, should we ping their admin? #Mastodon#Admin#Fediblock