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Toxic people do hurt communities though, especially volunteer communities. If you let people be their worst selves, you'll lose a bunch of people who don't want
by kadoban 2y ago
Toxic people do hurt communities though, especially volunteer communities. If you let people be their worst selves, you'll lose a bunch of people who don't want to deal with that.
I wouldn't think that'd be a hard sell here, you've seen the HN guidelines, right? Those and the moderation in practice are a lot of why anyone is here.
- dmitrygr 2y agoDid you read the discussion on the mailing list in question? I advise reading it so you may properly form your own opinion instead of assuming based on headline
- kadoban 2y agoYes, I did.
- soupbowl 2y agoI prefer people stay civil but CoC is not a smoking gun. CoC easily turns into another form of toxic. I've seen it happen on a few projects, NixOs is a great example of CoC Stasi going crazy.
- kadoban 2y agoDoesn't appear to be what's happening here though, or in Linux in general.
- smittywerben 2y agoLinux seems to have f bomb drama every few years. I disagree about the CoC thing though any place that treats "our Community Guidelines" like it's the Constitution are weird. Not everyone likes to report. After X revisions and N years it excludes the people who didn't want to (or couldn't) report.