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On 06/16/2010 08:43 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:33:27 +0200 |
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> Sebastian Pipping<sping@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Tone is currently not a strength of Gentoo. |
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>> As I have heard there are people not joining Gentoo because the |
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>> atmosphere in Gentoo is lacking respect and empathy. |
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> That's a conclusion first, then a premise? |
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>> I have searched a few places for rules on tone, looking at the Gentoo |
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>> Social Contract [1], the Code of Conduct [2] and the Philosophy of |
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>> Gentoo [3]. In a way the Code of Conduct defines what good and bad |
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>> behavior is. The term "Acceptable behaviour" may make sense as a |
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>> counterpart to "Unacceptable behaviour" but feels like "what you can |
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>> get away with" to me anyhow. |
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>> - How come tone is so rough when we actually meant to be |
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>> a friendly community? Has it always been that way? |
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> What are you referring to? forums.g.o? bugs.g.o? #gentoo? Who, where, |
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> when, what channel, thread? |
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>> - With these Code of Conduct rules in place how come DevRel |
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>> is not publicly reminding of these rules where necessary? |
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> When did you point this out to devrel? |
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> [... snip ...] |
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Those replies are a good example of the rude behavior the poster is |
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referring to. The replies consisted of sarcastic questions in "you're |
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an idiot" style. The only thing they do is trying to trigger a hostile |
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response from the poster. |
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Very good example of tone in Gentoo. |
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