shush

Quora feels like a salon where librarians shush you if you speak too loudly.

Oh, shush you, with your dirty facts! This is paranoia we're working with.

That's just bystanders like you looking for an excuse to not intervene and shush their conscience.

Apologizing at the end of an article like this only shows that there are higher powers at play trying to shush you up.

A practical concern might be that a library needs a librarian to shush people. And it needs people to obey the librarian when they do that.

That includes the ability to stop shush or simply toggle it. This is why people are talking about physically covering their web cams.

Sometimes the interviewer would still like to peek into my thoughts when I am not prepared for such interruptions but I would very politely shush them up with a hand gesture and give them the latest thought dump shortly afterwards. Worked out for me.

I started yelling at him and he turned to me with the "shush" gesture, and whispered that he was testing the screener to see if he'd catch it. As a dark-skinned man I did not want to participate in this exercise so I started loudly shouting "He put a lighter in my shoe, does everyone see this?"

I've literally heard one person shush another person who was trying to say something negative about what I was building - when that was the exact feedback I really wanted. I bet if I looked closely and in retrospect I could figure out what people didn't like after it fails, but that doesn't help me now, I wish people were more direct and honest.