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These guidelines are first and foremost community guidelines The only thing that bothers me about these guidelines are that they're pretending to be about "com
by forgottenpass 10y ago
These guidelines are first and foremost community guidelines
The only thing that bothers me about these guidelines are that they're pretending to be about "community." Github is private company with ultimate control of what they host. They should own their actions. It is patronizing that they frame it as anything else.
They have a userbase, and are soliciting feedback a draft of rules they will dictate to that userbase. I do not belong to a community by having a github account. I use a tool that happens to be externally hosted. I'm not even a community member on all the project's I've contributed to, some were just a commit or two.
I hate this phony sense of connectedness and uniformity everyone wants to project onto me based on my vocation and website usership. We're more like strangers sharing a subway car. Nothing more. Stop telling me who to be. Stop telling me we're friends/community/family, or that we share any other personal connection.