I've been blocked by a related account for years, the only altercation I ever had with them was when their founder was drunk one night (their admission) and went nuts at me for not linking the conference enough in my newsletter :-D Social stuff is hard, running events is hard, and people get stressed - it is what it is.
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#12220-30 submissions, in 4 years? Maybe he was blocked as a spam protection measure?
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Indeed, I was most disappointed when I looked at the Django Con Europe twitter and the first thing I saw was codes of conduct and comments about genders and bathrooms. I was wanting to read about Django.
Wow... Is there a way to live and work in tech without having to put up with all this shit ever again ? Why are those politics taking over everything.
There's not escape, every nook and cranny is getting more political these days.
Not sure why, I blame total ideologies that prescribe the personal being political.
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Yes, but that was seven years ago, and Things Are Different Now. (Just leafed through their twitter. I'm seeing a lot of the same clique as were involved in the node.js brouhaha last year. Is this conference really worth the fuss?)
This whole thing is a bit amusing. So Brendan Eich invented JS, and then led Mozilla. And being in the Brendan Eich Fan Club in 2011 probably was a positive thing and a cool thing for JS people. Then much later, Brendan Eich donates $1000 to some political thing people strongly disagree with So retroactively, being a fan of Brendan Eich means you are a homophobic hater and must be blocked? I am quite sure this ain’t…
You understand the timeline, but the virtue-signalling mob on Twitter probably doesn't.
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Possible answers: 1) Some political views correspond strongly with problematic behaviour that a conference would rather not deal with. 2) Virtue signaling for PR purposes.
2) would require the conference organizers to announce we've blocked this person.
No, just to announce that they are blocking based on criteria the audience agrees with.
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How does using a Twitter blocklist achieve 1)?
You keep them out of the loop to some degree and would check against that list during registration. It apparently catches some at least, I am told. I also know of 2 larger conferences in Europe where accounts were monitored and if activity indicates the person is present, they were removed from the venue by security.
>It apparently catches some at least, I am told.
Statistically speaking it should. Do you know if it's proportionally better than just blocking 1 in 10 would-be attendees at random?
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#127After reading the "code of conduct" on their homepage I would assume that you have unknowligly broken something like > "Using gendered terms like “dude” or “guys” to address a mixed-gendered group of people contributes to furthering exclusion of underrepresented individuals." The fact that they included an option to "make an anonymous" report furthers the assumption that you just got under the political wheels of the…
At least they make it clear, but that is quite a lot to consider https://2018.jsconf.eu/code-of-conduct/
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#128When you have an international group of people all speaking English as a second language the conversation can become a bit prickly. There isn't anything obvious here - a bit of complaining but it all seems mild and accurate: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=%40jsconfeu%20from%3A0ndras&... Purely guessing here, you might want to avoid tweeting "Stupid fucking white man" at conference organisers. https://twitter.com/0nd…
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Perhaps - then tell him . The reason does not matter (especially since we are unlikely to hear it from anyone), what matters is that they refuse to say what it is. "Effort" is not an excuse either since they even replied to him - but with something unprofessional while still leaving out the reason for no good reason that I can think of. You can even mask it behind a more fuzzy reason if you think the specific reason…
Disagree. A while ago I experimented with giving job applicants honest feedback on why they were unsuccessful - not just the old platitudes like"there were stronger candidates". Big mistake. When you reject people, they really really want to dig in, know why and then refute or try to overturn that.
The platitude lacks detail, but you're still giving truthful feedback. Frankly, that's not bad. I can't tell you it's actually worthwhile for you to do anything more, but thank you for trying.
I graduated in EE and really wanted to go into software. The manufacturing and construction jobs I had worked in over the summers had convinced me that I did not want to be drawing wiring diagrams all day.
I failed the interviews for the first few software development jobs I applied to. After one I thought had gone well, I emailed the hiring manager to ask for feedback. He told me that my technicals were ok for a new grad, but that I fell short on the social side. That was valuable feedback. I had been very nervous and awkward. It gave me the confidence that I actually had the talent to pass an interview with a little more practice. I sent that guy a thank you note, and a few months later I found my dream job in software.
Maybe I would have passed the later interview anyways. Probably. But if not, my life would be completely different today. Just after I got the offer letter for the software job, one of those construction companies asked me to come in for an interview...
Thank you for trying. It doesn't always pay off, but it can make a difference. Giving that sort of feedback is all risk and no reward, so I really appreciate that you gave it a shot.
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> Imagine that Hacker News would ban your account jakobegger, no explanation, no way to get informations why or what you did wrong. Would you just accept this as just "leave me alone"? I mean, they literally do this in the from of shadow banning.
I doubt they'd do it without warning you before hand to comply to the guidelines.
The thought experiment in the GP was what if they didn't