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I think this point is key. There's plenty of blame on both sides here. Yes, these kinds of jokes are immature and this conduct was ill advised. That said, tak
by AnIrishDuck 14y ago
I think this point is key. There's plenty of blame on both sides here.
Yes, these kinds of jokes are immature and this conduct was ill advised.
That said, taking ambush pictures of nonconsenting parties and very publicly shaming them shouldn't be your go-to response. I'd say that response was completely disproportionate to the initial crime.
Far better to throw an (in person) "come on guys, be professional" their way and escalate from there. If that's too confrontational for your tastes, go talk to one of the PyCon volunteers and ask them to step in. I think it's kind of ridiculous that they (PyCon staff) didn't get a chance to resolve this issue discretely and had to hear about it alongside however many thousand other people.
- takluyver 14y agoIt appears that PyCon staff did handle the incident, and did so sensibly and discretely: http://pycon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inappropriate.html http://pycon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inappr... It's not clear whether that happened before or after the photo was posted. Edit: the code of conduct also says "Public shaming can be counter-productive to building a strong community. PyCon does not condone nor participate in such actions out of respect."
- xymostech 14y agoShe took the picture before she got the pycon people involved. You can tell because of the times on her tweets. The picture was tweeted at 10:32, and she started calling for the pycon staff at 10:34.