Friends of Captain Awkward

Hi, I recently had a response to my post moderated to remove "advice." The removed content consisted of a link to a Wikipedia article related to what I was struggling with. I can see how an article would be considered advice if it contained specific suggestions for action but this one didn't. I've a...

Hi, this site has SSL available but the links from the main page at friendsofcaptainawkward.com/main/ (which is the one that shows up from a DuckDuckGo or Google search) do not use HTTPS regardless of whether you access it with HTTPS. Can the links be changed to use HTTPS so they will be more secure?

Thanks for all the great work you do! Welcome, new mods!

Yes, thanks, I know you spend so much time behind the scenes keeping this a safe community and I am so glad you all do.

I tap the blacked out word when on my phone. ETA didn't see the other replies

In addition to the disability context around person-first language, there is a culture in talking about addiction--at least in 12-step/Alcoholics Anonymous circles, which is what I'm most familiar--of labeling oneself an addict. A big part of this is trying to shape the person's thinking from "this ...

One way I've dealt with this is by writing things like "healthy-to-me foods" or "foods that are in line with my health goals." I've asked about it in the past and been told this is ok because I'm making it clear I am referring to my own health and not the healthiness of the food in general. If you h...

Also--I don't know if the show/hide functions are something where site admins can go in and change the JavaScript--if they are I'd be happy to take a shot at fixing the problem.

I am having this problem when I want to hide multiple sections of text in a post. For example: Here is some hidden text and then: yet more hidden text At least in the post I was writing (was a comment in the ballad section), both show/hide buttons only affected the top hidden section ("Here is some ...

What does it mean when you click "submit" on a PM and it goes to "outbox" instead of "sent"? Do I need to do anything else to send these messages?