Rodriguez was a co-founder and is an OG in the modern graph computing/database space. This is precisely what so many of us warned about codes of conduct being used to cripple FOSS projects by political actors.
I mean look Coraline Ehmke's personal posts. Ehmke is an absolutely toxic garbage example of humanity on social media. The very living embodiment of the unhinged, angry at everyone, vitriolic tranny.
And that's the person whose code of conduct everyone adopted. Just let that sink in.
This is precisely what so many of us warned about codes of conduct being used to cripple FOSS projects by political actors.
I thought so too... and then I actually read the twitter feed they are up in arms about. https://twitter.com/thecoopste... [twitter.com]
I think TFA summed it up nicely.
Its content is deliberately engineered to offend everyone, achingly so. We could tell you it is lazy and punches down, which are both kryptonite for good satire,
Or as former ASF board member Niclas Hedhman described it:
"The tweets in question were obvious satire, 'bad/dark humor' and trolling for the sake of making people upset," said Hedhman. "It was the essence of why I am not on Twitter and think it is the worst plague that has been inflicted on humans in recent years. I didn't like Marko's tactics, but I can understand his angle."
You can call it "cancel culture" but really what's happening is the foundation is protecting their image by disassociating themselves. It's literally a business decision because it has the potential to cause them reputational harm. Frankly, if you don't want to be part of that organization then it
You can call it "cancel culture" but really what's happening is the foundation is protecting their image by disassociating themselves. It's literally a business decision because it has the potential to cause them reputational harm.
Yes, that is exactly the core of cancel culture: People threaten to judge the whole ASF because of the clearly unrelated comments of one person related to a particular piece of software.
This is reminiscent of the worst of McCarthyism and the Red Scare during the 1950s in the US.
Yes, that is exactly the core of cancel culture: People threaten to judge the whole ASF because of the clearly unrelated comments of one person
That's nothing new and the response has been around since PR was invented. The only thing that has changed is people's ability to communicate with a mind-boggling number of people. It used to be difficult but now with social media you just have to type it up and hit send.
If that's how you define "cancel culture" then it's been around for a century but it's only in the last decade or so that people have optimized a way to bring consequences upon themselves which frankly is their own doing.
You are lying in order to victim blame. I guess that's how you cope with being McCarthyist. Boycotts have always been about actions that the target took, never about something as inane as some third party -- in this case, who doesn't even work for them -- tweeting mean jokes.
The Code of Conduct works exactly as we warned (Score:5, Insightful)
Rodriguez was a co-founder and is an OG in the modern graph computing/database space. This is precisely what so many of us warned about codes of conduct being used to cripple FOSS projects by political actors.
I mean look Coraline Ehmke's personal posts. Ehmke is an absolutely toxic garbage example of humanity on social media. The very living embodiment of the unhinged, angry at everyone, vitriolic tranny.
And that's the person whose code of conduct everyone adopted. Just let that sink in.
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This is precisely what so many of us warned about codes of conduct being used to cripple FOSS projects by political actors.
I thought so too... and then I actually read the twitter feed they are up in arms about. https://twitter.com/thecoopste... [twitter.com]
I think TFA summed it up nicely.
Its content is deliberately engineered to offend everyone, achingly so. We could tell you it is lazy and punches down, which are both kryptonite for good satire,
Or as former ASF board member Niclas Hedhman described it:
"The tweets in question were obvious satire, 'bad/dark humor' and trolling for the sake of making people upset," said Hedhman. "It was the essence of why I am not on Twitter and think it is the worst plague that has been inflicted on humans in recent years. I didn't like Marko's tactics, but I can understand his angle."
You can call it "cancel culture" but really what's happening is the foundation is protecting their image by disassociating themselves. It's literally a business decision because it has the potential to cause them reputational harm. Frankly, if you don't want to be part of that organization then it
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Yes, that is exactly the core of cancel culture: People threaten to judge the whole ASF because of the clearly unrelated comments of one person related to a particular piece of software.
This is reminiscent of the worst of McCarthyism and the Red Scare during the 1950s in the US.
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Yes, that is exactly the core of cancel culture: People threaten to judge the whole ASF because of the clearly unrelated comments of one person
That's nothing new and the response has been around since PR was invented. The only thing that has changed is people's ability to communicate with a mind-boggling number of people. It used to be difficult but now with social media you just have to type it up and hit send.
If that's how you define "cancel culture" then it's been around for a century but it's only in the last decade or so that people have optimized a way to bring consequences upon themselves which frankly is their own doing.
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You are lying in order to victim blame. I guess that's how you cope with being McCarthyist. Boycotts have always been about actions that the target took, never about something as inane as some third party -- in this case, who doesn't even work for them -- tweeting mean jokes.
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You are lying in order to victim blame.
Victim? He violated the contract he agreed to be part of his project. He could have refused to join but he did not. This was an unforced error.
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Maybe you should read their Code of Conduct again, and decide whether ASF claims they control all of Twitter.
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Stop being obdurate. It's merely about the conduct of people working on the project and it's scope is not limited.
Re:The Code of Conduct works exactly as we warned (Score:0)
It's merely about the conduct of people working on the project and it's scope is not limited.
And you consider this a good thing?
Sounds like a cult.