Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly (and badly) and we have to ban accounts that won't stop doing this.

I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good things, but we need posts like this one and these others to stop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42590151

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41849266

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re: Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025

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Post by chicken_grease » Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 7:47 PM UTC

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #4

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Re: Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025

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Post by greglansky » Sat, Jan 18, 2025, 1:48 AM UTC

Pedophile (https://sircmpwn.com/) Drew DeVault working hard to destroy an important force for good in the Free Software ecosystem? Again? Imagine my shock

Re: Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025

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Post by hitekker » Sat, Jan 18, 2025, 6:30 AM UTC

greglansky wrote: post #8

Pedophile ( https://sircmpwn.com/ ) Drew DeVault working hard to destroy an important force for good in the Free Software ecosystem? Again? Imagine my shock

At first, I saw your comment as character assassination. Then, I saw pages after pages of CP handled by Drew, or someone who wanted to look like Drew. This HN thread covers the drama succinctly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41837782

My summary: Drew DeVault first posted an anonymous teardown of Richard Stallman, accusing him of sexual deviancy & political failings. Drew pretended the report was new to him. HN discovered Drew was actually the report's author and asked him to clarify. Drew hasn't commented since then. Other sleuths soon pieced together that Drew (or "Drew") had a long-running sexual interest in anime children pornography.

IMO, Drew's attack against RMS feels hypocritical.