I personally don't care if some repos with one watcher are full of idiocy, but I think opening pull requests is the wrong way to go about this. The old advice is, "Praise in public, criticize in private." If someone doesn't understand that they're offending others, a short e-mail will probably solve the problem. Pull requests and public "discussion" will just feed trolls.
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#12It's good that people will use their freedom of speech to voice their dissatisfaction with what other people wrote.
I just hope those who join this project don't eventually make it a them vs. us thing: "look at these disgusting dudebros who refuse to change these words!"
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#13Let's not pander to the radical "politically correct" folk. "people publicly posting code with comments that could make so many people feel awful, unwanted, and excluded" Really? REALLY? Let's call this for what it really is shall we? A group of vigilantes being dicks to people who they feel are being dicks, because of something as intangible as "hurt feelings". Oh please, are they feeling privileged enough? In my da…
> I'm offended at your offence to being offended by the word "fuck" in a comment someone else wrote.
I think you missed the entire point of this article. While I agree with you that it shouldn't be up to a group of people to decide what should and shouldn't be allowed, the entire idea of this campaign isn't to rid github of swearwords.
What they're wanting to achieve is to clean up the blatant/pointless derogatory terms. I mean why does someone think a commit message "What kind of massive faggot tries to use gayQuery with node" is acceptable.
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#14> Okay, that’s great and all, but who decides what is right and what is wrong? > We the people. No, it's the brigade that decides. So, a GitHub Ethical Brigade who will harass repos because an individual in the brigade decided to take offense?
Doesn't the repo owner still have to accept the change? And what if the owner ignores it?
It's harassment, regardless.
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#15What's the book where one character is dating an artist and she decides that binary - the phalic 1 and the yonic 0 - is symbolic of the patriarchy and so she has a team re-write software to invert the digits?
I think it was Neal Stephenson?
Because while I am in favour of carefuy chosing your language when picking names for stuff and leaving messages I worry that this kind of thing in the wrong hands can go too far.
I'm not sure what the research says about effective methods of asking people to make a change. I'm going to need something substantial to persuade me that this is a good method.
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#16Let's not pander to the radical "politically correct" folk. "people publicly posting code with comments that could make so many people feel awful, unwanted, and excluded" Really? REALLY? Let's call this for what it really is shall we? A group of vigilantes being dicks to people who they feel are being dicks, because of something as intangible as "hurt feelings". Oh please, are they feeling privileged enough? In my da…
> I'm offended at your offence to being offended by the word "fuck" in a comment someone else wrote. I think you missed the entire point of this article. While I agree with you that it shouldn't be up to a group of people to decide what should and shouldn't be allowed, the entire idea of this campaign isn't to rid github of swearwords. What they're wanting to achieve is to clean up the blatant/pointless derogatory te…
The problem with iniciatives like these is that they make it hard for me to know that someone is the kind of person who would write "faggot" and "gayQuery" unironically.
When toxic or just obnoxious people are instructed to hide behind crisp language, you only find out about their toxicity or obnoxiousness in person.
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#17> Okay, that’s great and all, but who decides what is right and what is wrong? > We the people. No, it's the brigade that decides. So, a GitHub Ethical Brigade who will harass repos because an individual in the brigade decided to take offense?
Won't somebody think of the racists and homophobes!
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#18Ok, you win. You're holier than me. I must confess, I never thought of searching people's repos for crimethink comments and variable names. Take me to the inquisitor. I'd take it as a mark of pride to be assaulted by this group of idiots.
Just for clarification, are you stating that you're proud to be a bigot?
Because your comment kinda comes off like that.
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#19Let's not pander to the radical "politically correct" folk. "people publicly posting code with comments that could make so many people feel awful, unwanted, and excluded" Really? REALLY? Let's call this for what it really is shall we? A group of vigilantes being dicks to people who they feel are being dicks, because of something as intangible as "hurt feelings". Oh please, are they feeling privileged enough? In my da…
> I'm offended at your offence to being offended by the word "fuck" in a comment someone else wrote. I think you missed the entire point of this article. While I agree with you that it shouldn't be up to a group of people to decide what should and shouldn't be allowed, the entire idea of this campaign isn't to rid github of swearwords. What they're wanting to achieve is to clean up the blatant/pointless derogatory te…
No, I think you missed my point.
We now how a set of people who think they're judge, jury and executioner on terms they don't think other people shouldn't use.
Not only that, they are hiding behind the political correctness flag. Let's call it for what it is shall we? Bullying. Plain and simple.
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#20Ok, you win. You're holier than me. I must confess, I never thought of searching people's repos for crimethink comments and variable names. Take me to the inquisitor. I'd take it as a mark of pride to be assaulted by this group of idiots.
Just for clarification, are you stating that you're proud to be a bigot? Because your comment kinda comes off like that.
No, I think it comes off as sarcasm.