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18 Post author: CronoDAS 22 June 2011 04:51AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 22 June 2011 03:50:59PM 16 points [-]

I thought so too at first, and was annoyed, but it seems that icons are more inclusive, as they don't unnecessarily favor native English speakers.

This might be a more important consideration for a website that wasn't, you know, based around arguing subtle points in fairly precise English.

Comment author: SilasBarta 22 June 2011 04:09:07PM 1 point [-]

True, but from the fact that someone is somewhat fluent in English, it doesn't follow that they can easily infer the meanings of such context-free and technical terms. In fairness, though, I don't know the extent of this problem, and I can't really speak for such an audience. I do know that has been, well, general, unspoken policy to be at least as inclusive in other contexts, even when the nature of this site would kind of obviate the need to be inclusive in that particular way.