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I was not allowed to used a "calorie counter" web app as a sample app for a certain new web framework at a presentation I planned to make because it may be upse
by rustcharm 8y ago
I was not allowed to used a "calorie counter" web app as a sample app for a certain new web framework at a presentation I planned to make because it may be upsetting to "people of size" and people with "disordered eating" issues.
I declined to change my example, and pulled out of the conference.
- untog 8y agoAnd what was a dumb decision on the part of the conference organisers. It doesn't really have anything to do with why codes of conduct are a good or bad idea, though.
- ta76567656 8y agoWhether they are a good or bad idea, maybe not, but whether they should be supported, opposed, or ignored, it is relevant. The group of people actively pushing for codes of conduct and the group of people making decisions like the one above have significant overlap, and empowering one empowers the other. It's kind of like the police. We need police and I want to like the police. But until they can police themselves and keep police abuse to an absolute minimum, supporting them should not be a foregone conclusion.
- untog 8y ago> The group of people actively pushing for codes of conduct and the group of people making decisions like the one above have significant overlap That's just vague hand-wavy logic. One time, a group of people vaguely aligned with X did something stupid, therefore X is a fundamentally bad idea. Obviously that's not true. If a conference organiser puts together a bad conference do you say that conferences as a concept are terrible? Of course not. You say "that was a bad conference". When an organiser overzealously applies inclusive rules you don't say "inclusivity rules are bad", you say "that rule is bad".