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But we don't know what actually happened. Perhaps you can keep your judgement for AFTER you hear both sides of the story?

PhasmaFelis 11y ago
Keyes' story was pretty clear and detailed; I don't see much room for misinterpretation. I suppose it's possible that he's outright lying and the locked bug he linked in the article was actually Viagra spam, but I don't think it's reasonable to suspend all discussion on that basis.
- TheLogothete 11y ago
  Or perhaps it went something like this: A person who has a long history of creating drama wherever he goes sees a very aptly named argument with siblings which follow the same nomenclature. The person opens a bug report to change the name of said argument because he perceives some grand social injustice with it. This person is rather impatient so he hammers it, effectively spamming with emails the maintainers. But that's not enough, he hammers the mailing lists and contacts directly the (very busy) maintainers just for good measure. He doesn't get what he wants because he is being obtuse and ridiculous, so he decides to elevate this to the head maintainer and emails him directly, insisting actions to be taken to indulge his caprice. Maybe he even posts on twitter to get other people with nothing better to do on his side and exert pressure. Maybe, just maybe, this person feels excited and warm inside as he posts on twitter. He did it again. People will engage in meaningless rhetoric about things that are not really there and he is center of it all. Oh, the hours spent going back and forth and back again and all the ATTENTION. But the head maintainer sees right through it and will have none of it, so he just blocks this person from stirring drama YET again in the future. Not saying this happened, just fyi, but it's possible, even probable, one might think. And after all, here we are, creating rhetoric about things of absolutely no significance whatsoever.
  - ironholds 11y ago
    What on earth are you on about? I opened a bug report, asked some people on Twitter to affirm it wasn't just me, and that's it. Maybe, just maybe, you're a pulling conspiracy theories out of mid-air.

PhasmaFelis 11y ago

Keyes' story was pretty clear and detailed; I don't see much room for misinterpretation. I suppose it's possible that he's outright lying and the locked bug he linked in the article was actually Viagra spam, but I don't think it's reasonable to suspend all discussion on that basis.

TheLogothete 11y ago
Or perhaps it went something like this: A person who has a long history of creating drama wherever he goes sees a very aptly named argument with siblings which follow the same nomenclature. The person opens a bug report to change the name of said argument because he perceives some grand social injustice with it. This person is rather impatient so he hammers it, effectively spamming with emails the maintainers. But that's not enough, he hammers the mailing lists and contacts directly the (very busy) maintainers just for good measure. He doesn't get what he wants because he is being obtuse and ridiculous, so he decides to elevate this to the head maintainer and emails him directly, insisting actions to be taken to indulge his caprice. Maybe he even posts on twitter to get other people with nothing better to do on his side and exert pressure. Maybe, just maybe, this person feels excited and warm inside as he posts on twitter. He did it again. People will engage in meaningless rhetoric about things that are not really there and he is center of it all. Oh, the hours spent going back and forth and back again and all the ATTENTION. But the head maintainer sees right through it and will have none of it, so he just blocks this person from stirring drama YET again in the future. Not saying this happened, just fyi, but it's possible, even probable, one might think. And after all, here we are, creating rhetoric about things of absolutely no significance whatsoever.
- ironholds 11y ago
  What on earth are you on about? I opened a bug report, asked some people on Twitter to affirm it wasn't just me, and that's it. Maybe, just maybe, you're a pulling conspiracy theories out of mid-air.