Which makes me wonder: is there a problem to be solved here in the first place? Is Stack Exchange, despite all the drama, brouhaha, and blog posts, not actually unwelcoming after all?
We're allI'm going to be hugely unpopular and say Yes, there is still a lovely bunch of people hereproblem. And yes, Stack Exchange probably still deserves its reputation as being unfriendly.
The following comments have all been deleted because they were either flagged by me or by someone else.
The following comment on EL&U was addressed to me after I had defended an answer as being perfectly legitimate even if the author quoted some Google statistics.
This was addressed to a new contributor who had not capitalised the word "english" in their question. Note the diamond.
This was a comment left at an answer of mine on Meta, some of you might have seen this one.
This is a comment addressed to a new contributor, which I flagged earlier today
What kind of impression do these comments leave on visitors, users, and new contributors? Who is the real victim? The recipient or the site's reputation and good name? How many users just shrugged their shoulders, and brushed themthe comments to one side? And by the way these comments were posted months after the CoC.
N.B. A “GP” is British for general practitioner, in American it would be “family doctor”.
Is anyone going to say there isn't a problem?