I'll be honest, if someone described me as "scumbags who have tried to turn into spyware" on the issue tracker for a project I maintain, I'd probably block them too. That kind of language really doesn't achieve anything, and any issue-tracker is better off without it.
Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
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Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
#12They're almost impressive in their commitment to Gestapo tactics: only 10 mins to close the issue and block me without any comment or justification.
Normally I'd say "Gestapo tactics" is an exaggeration for deleting a comment someone wrote on the internet, but given that the company in question has threatened someone with the specific brutality of the Chinese police, I think it might be warranted here. https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/muse_group_deportatio... > I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and C…
That's easily among some of the most disgusting things you could threaten someone with.
Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
#13I'll be honest, if someone described me as "scumbags who have tried to turn into spyware" on the issue tracker for a project I maintain, I'd probably block them too. That kind of language really doesn't achieve anything, and any issue-tracker is better off without it.
Just closing the issue with no further comment on such an important allegation is not good though.
I know my wife recently installed Audacity; I'm going to scramble to figure out what the state of this is now.
Thanks Antisol for bringing it to my attention!
Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
#14No doubt I’ll be voted down, but… if you’re going to ask for mature, open discussions, perhaps you ought to also avoid labeling those on the other side of the discussion as “scumbags”. I’m not a fan of Audacity’s current tracking kerfluffle, but this response swings the pendulum too far in the other direction.
In my book you lose the right to not be called a scumbag when you start acting like a scumbag.
Blocking me without comment for asking a legitimate question which is not in violation of the code of conduct is the act of a scumbag.
If you'd like to debate me on this point, please begin.
Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
#15I'll be honest, if someone described me as "scumbags who have tried to turn into spyware" on the issue tracker for a project I maintain, I'd probably block them too. That kind of language really doesn't achieve anything, and any issue-tracker is better off without it.
Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
#16lol the OP saying "I was just curious" about "these scumbags" is about as honest as the "this totally was not a threat" from the MuseScore guy.
Why be so tone-deaf or intellectually dishonest.
Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
#17Audacity is dead, thanks to the psychos at MuseGroup. One of the forks will take over, no worries.
Until a clear fork wins out, people can always use Debian's version [1], which will of course not contain the the shenanigans as they are DFSG-incompatible [2].
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/audacity
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990737
Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
#18They're almost impressive in their commitment to Gestapo tactics: only 10 mins to close the issue and block me without any comment or justification.
Normally I'd say "Gestapo tactics" is an exaggeration for deleting a comment someone wrote on the internet, but given that the company in question has threatened someone with the specific brutality of the Chinese police, I think it might be warranted here. https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/muse_group_deportatio... > I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and C…
On what grounds is this downvoted?
Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
#19The "question" is just rhetorical, asking for confirmation of the worst possible way to interpret something. As such, it's close to the definition of assuming bad faith, and itself hard to interpret as an attempt to resolve anything constructively.