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Unfortunately, the RoR “community” and Zed have a history when it comes to penis-related insults. There was a time when you could add anyone you liked to a gith
by pja 11y ago
Unfortunately, the RoR “community” and Zed have a history when it comes to penis-related insults. There was a time when you could add anyone you liked to a github project & they couldn’t block you, so a bunch of developers thought it would be funny to add Zed's github account to a project to draw ascii penises. Every time he’d remove himself, they’d add him to another one & so on.
Puerile? Yup. Also, possibly career sabotaging if a potential future employer looks at your github project list.
See https://web.archive.org/web/20130117043748/http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1306816425.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130117043748/http://sheddingbi... for some of the gory details. Github woke up, smelled the coffee & made it possible for their users to block other users shortly after this little saga.
Yes, it’s easy for us to say “he should be the bigger person & not respond in kind” but on the flip side, we haven’t been on the receiving end of this kind of abusive behaviour.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Yes, it’s easy for us to say “he should be the bigger person & not respond in kind” but on the flip side, we haven’t been on the receiving end of this kind of abusive behaviour. But he's not responding in kind, because the people he is attacking "in kind" aren't the people who attacked him. And so, insofar as Zed's abuse is "in kind" to the unrelated-to-the-issue-complained-about abuse he has previously received, we (as in the HN community) have, in fact, been on the receiving end of that kind of abusive behavior from Zed. Some people abusing you doesn't provide you license to abuse other people while complaining about how you hate abusive people.