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In the image at the top of the article, why is the Rust crab altered to have "angry" eyes and holding a knife aimed at the Go gopher? Aside from the joke of "do
by netprole 3y ago
In the image at the top of the article, why is the Rust crab altered to have "angry" eyes and holding a knife aimed at the Go gopher? Aside from the joke of "don't bring a knife to a protobuf fight" the inference of violence sucks and lessens the spirit of friendly competition and "all in good fun." I don't know if Rust has a code-of-conduct or rules for use of their mascot, but I bet this doesn't follow it.
- steveklabnik 3y agoFerrous (the crab) is deliberately not an official mascot, and is in the public domain. There is no code of conduct or rules.
- reubenmorais 3y agoIt's the logo of CrabLang: https://crablang.org/ https://crablang.org/
- netprole 3y agoThanks for that, good to know
- signa11 3y agoaren’t you reading a bit too much into it?
- netprole 3y agoMaybe you're not thinking about it enough? Do you know anyone who has been almost fatally stabbed (attacked by gangs) with knives? I do! It likely violates a code-of-conduct and is unprofessional.
- reacharavindh 3y agoIsn’t it tiring to think about every possible offence in the world and how someone somewhere will be offended by (knives, tires, cars, pens, saws, sharks, planes, needles, ropes, speakers, games, … you get the point) while writing an article about a programming language? At some point one needs to exercise common sense and learn to live in a public society where people speak and not everyone is out to offend you.
- netprole 3y agoWhat does a weapon (a knife) have to do with an article about a programming language?
- reacharavindh 3y agoExactly, then why does it matter that the author had anything in their post as a figure of speech or analogy? Is it wrong to post a meme of a dog sitting near fire - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-fine https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-fine As a joke from SREs who handle firefighting calls? Does it offend dog lovers, people who are scared of fire?
- netprole 3y agoI don't think I understand the comparison. Can you think of another one that involves a weapon and directed violence?
- reacharavindh 3y agoIt’s simple. You ignore fire as a bad thing and don’t even consider that as equivalent comparison to a knife. But someone who was affected by arson probably will say “why include fire in a blog post?!” . My point is, it is not on the author to think about all these effect when they write/speak. As a mature society, we should learn to not expect every source to filter their thoughts and rather expect the consumer to filter out what they don’t want. By not valuing fire/arson at the same level of concern as Knife(important to you), you just validated the core of the problem.
- netprole 3y agoThanks for engaging, but I don't think I follow you. Can you think of another example that specifically involves a weapon and directed violence?
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- anonfordays 3y agoCongratulations! You've won the Poe's Law Post of the Day Award! "Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
- netprole 3y agoBut it does appear to be the author's intent, considering their Twitter account has a photo of the crab using the gohper's carcass (with dead eyes) as a carpet referencing the same article (if you translate the Chinese). Also, the author went out of their way to use a CrabLang logo (not a Rust logo) to add the knife. https://x.com/ratuthomm/status/1775183479858483439 https://x.com/ratuthomm/status/1775183479858483439 https://imgur.com/a/txMb4Kw https://imgur.com/a/txMb4Kw
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- anonfordays 2y agoWhat intent? Have you asked the author what their intent is? The linked Twitter post does not have a knife in sight. What is wrong with using the CrabLang logo when he was using valid CrabLang?