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Because it’s a private discussion between two people of opposing views. Same reason you can still text your friends even if you work in public office.
by jackcodes 6y ago
Because it’s a private discussion between two people of opposing views. Same reason you can still text your friends even if you work in public office.
- baddox 6y agoIf you had any suggestion for the website of an open source project, wouldn't you discuss that publicly? I don't think you would privately contact the single person who is in control of the project's website, at least not initially.
- kjksf 6y agoSuggesting changes to the website was not a problem. Trying to mobilize Twitter mob against a person that declined your suggestion was a problem.
- baddox 6y agoI don't see any attempt to mobilize a Twitter mob against a person, unless you just consider all disagreements on Twitter to inherently imply a desire for a Twitter mob to come to your side.
- scarmig 6y agoImagine someone went to Gab (or whatever the right wing mob platform du jour is) and denounced a colleague and published their contact info on it. There's no explicit call to contact or harass the person. Is this appropriate?
- baddox 6y agoI’m not too familiar with Gab, but are you implying that Twitter is exclusively a platform for left wing mobs? If so, you are mistaken, and this coarse impression of what Twitter is should not be projected onto every single tweet.
- scarmig 6y agoTwitter is a platform for mobs of every sort, and if you have a mob of followers and you attack a colleague, publishing his contact info, you are de facto encouraging the mob to attack him, even if you play dumb after the fact.
- baddox 6y agoThere was no attack on a colleague (a public disagreement is not an attack). The person who was fired has less than a third the followers of the other person (and probably very significant overlap between the follower groups). There certainly was no publishing of contact info, unless you consider all public mentions on Twitter to be publishing contact info (which is preposterous). Your impression of what happened is mistaken.
- fsociety 6y agoYou’re performing impressive mental gymnastics to say this person’s behavior did not harm psychological safety. Instead of trying to prove there was no harm, and that being a maintainer of an open source project should make it okay if people do this to you.. think about the intent of what this person did. Did they intend to create a safe environment? Or did they intend to bully someone into seeing their view, and doxed them on Twitter. A view that the original tweeter identified as political!
- rumanator 6y ago> Trying to mobilize Twitter mob against a person that declined your suggestion was a problem. That sounds less like a suggestion and more like an order.
- DevKoala 6y agoNo, you contact the website admin and discuss the suggestion in the communication medium of their preference. After all, you are making the request to them. Not the other way around.
- baddox 6y agoI don't think it's reasonable for one contributor to an open source project to make a decision about that project in a private conversation with another contributor and then feel entitled to total silence about that decision in public. That doesn't sound like a good way to conduct decision-making for open source projects.