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What exactly defines a 'gamergater'? Unless he actively harassed someone or acted in a way incredibly unbecoming a highly respected BSD neckbeard relic, I don't see why it should have any bearing on his commits.

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So what? Since when thinking, that Kotaku and Polygon are harmful to gaming, has become a bad thing?

And how does that impact the QUALITY of his/her code?

What you are doing there, dear Randi, is by definition "harassment".

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What is the relevance of a person's tweets to the operation of an open source project? What could have been said that's so wrong?

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He isn't a "GG" at all. Harper's just being her usual nasty self and throwing her considerable weight around. If anyone's hurting anyone's rep it's that clown.

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@xmj posted the whole (private) IRC discussion online. Here's the link: https://archive.is/9KGyX#selection-9.6580-9.6583

I don't like to post private conversations, but this has been reported in other communities and it is an important piece of the puzzle to crearly understand the situation.

This has to be discussed, because I think we need to fix the gender gap, but this kind of "fundamentalism" is not healthy. This doesn't seem to be the right path, but maybe I could be wrong.

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post #2

What exactly defines a 'gamergater'? Unless he actively harassed someone or acted in a way incredibly unbecoming a highly respected BSD neckbeard relic, I don't see why it should have any bearing on his commits.

This is called "freedom of speech".
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