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Re: LibreTube main devs account has been suspended by GitHub without any reasons

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Post by slenk »

eimrine wrote: post #28
bluegreenyellow wrote: post #7

Honestly, why do people create usernames like that? Sure, there are different levels of humor in the world. Famously, Linus (from Torvalds) and the comments he made caused, historically pain in LKML but as we all (in the world) as becoming closer due to centralisation of services - should we all slowly align a bit to openness (i.e) from both sides. Do not offend and do not get offended.

To tell the truth I can not understand why do people get offended from something meant to be offendful. Just use the bits of code which are working properly and do not cosplay Russians at their ability to see enemy forces at anything. Doesn't the situation with kik and leftpad teaches us something?

I don't understand how the leftpad debacle is similar to this...and what's this about Russians?

Re: LibreTube main devs account has been suspended by GitHub without any reasons

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Post by slenk »

schleck8 wrote: post #15
CyberRabbi wrote: post #13

Why is it so hard for people to understand that if they want to access to basic services on the internet they have to conform to normal behavior standards?

I can't name my account after sexual assault on children and use a racial slur as email domain? Literally 1984.

So use a service without morals. Some exist.

Re: LibreTube main devs account has been suspended by GitHub without any reasons

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Post by Zeik0s »

sschueller wrote: post #23
squiffsquiff wrote: post #10

Seems pretty obvious why the account has been suspended- user created a wilfully offensive user name and email domain

That's a bit of a slippery slope with the username. I thought it meant "Research In Motion The Kid". What if I made a username based on a tradition like in my city (Sächsilüüte) where we burn a snowman named Böög made out of paper and explosives. Let's say I use "burntheböög". Turns out in Swedish, Böög is a derogatory term for gay, so how do you deal with that? Or even more nuanced. In England cigarettes are often c…

Doubt.

No one has an e-mail address with tld "nigge.rs" from the Service "cock.li" without beeing obviously offensive on purpose.

Re: LibreTube main devs account has been suspended by GitHub without any reasons

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Post by eimrine »

slenk wrote: post #31
eimrine wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To tell the truth I can not understand why do people get offended from something meant to be offendful. Just use the bits of code which are working properly and do not cosplay Russians at their ability to see enemy forces at anything. Doesn't the situation with kik and leftpad teaches us something?

I don't understand how the leftpad debacle is similar to this...and what's this about Russians?

Lefpad history learns that it may be painful for folks when someone responsible for hosting of code is doing something opposite to idea of hosting code.

Claim about Russians may be not understood worldwide, sorry about that. I meaned some kind of character when people ban some other people just because they just have fun of punishing. I wish to have a public code hosting without ability to remove something from, to prevent more and more limitations over time of what can be stored there. Sorry, that was my little insult.

Re: LibreTube main devs account has been suspended by GitHub without any reasons

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Post by ddaalluu2 »

I'm playing lots of mmorpgs. One day I created a char named candoom. I got so many tells by people apparently specializing in creating pun names. I didn't know that kind of thing was such a popular sport.

It's just the guy's sense of humor, so what.

I'm on his side, even if I don't share his views.

If people get offended by rimthekid or cock.li they need to ask themselves who's the one having a problem. Maybe pull that stick out their butts and develop a sense of humor.

Microsoft is evil. That's why I pulled all my repos (over 100) from github. They have zero power over me. They favor big corporations.

I had a dispute with the Go team over a font which lead to my account turning invisible. Lesson learned: Don't trust Microsoft with anything.

- ligma bawlz

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