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Why is this comment, and not the culture war nonsense, not at the top of the page? Having watched Howard's talk, clearly he's right and the conference was wron
by newacct583 6y ago
Why is this comment, and not the culture war nonsense, not at the top of the page?
Having watched Howard's talk, clearly he's right and the conference was wrong. This was respectful and appropriate, period. Someone clearly had an axe to grind about a separate topic.
That said, some of the comments here are just off the wall paranoia, and really distasteful. I mean, look: while it was enforced badly it's certainly not innapropriate for a conference to demand, y'know, that it's speakers not be assholes. There was a real and pretty awful culture in the open source world about this stuff for a long time, and it's a good thing that we're cleaning that up.
- boublepop 6y agoI agree that his talk was not in any way offensive. But I have to add that no matter if you think they where right or wrong about their judgement, it seems plainly true that they where horribly wrong in how they carried out the process. Even in cases where someone was violating their CoC, they should have lived up to their own states process and held themselves to a much much higher standard. Yes, trying to weed out “assholes” is a good objective, but that doesn’t mean you can go about it any which way without yourself being a monumental asshole. CoC’s very point is to be consistent and open about your process. If you throw out the outlines process the second someone sends a report and only use it for its waist ace so you can say “you violated CoC” without any mention to which parts, then it’s not worth 2 cents.