[gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

[Duncan]

Dirkjan Ochtman posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:53:25 +0200 as excerpted:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 <someone> wrote:
>> The only position you don't want vapier in is behind you. He humps.
>
> This seems rather wildly inappropriate. WTF?

FWIW, it's apparently an inside joke going back many years, possibly to 
before I came to gentoo over ten years ago now.  I don't know how it 
started, however, or what the exact inside joke is, but was never really 
comfortable with it myself, either.  Except that being a user on a dev 
list I feel a bit like a guest, and as a guest, unless it's criminal if 
those for whom it is home don't have a problem with it, I don't feel it's 
my place to object, more to simply uninvite myself if I'm that 
uncomfortable with it, and it turned out I wasn't /that/ uncomfortable 
with it after all.

Never-the-less, it reads like there's at least some objection now from 
someone who /can/ rightly to call this list home, and I can't disagree 
with it.  The comment does seem to have been inline with past norms, but 
I for one would consider it an improvement if I never see it here again, 
even if I don't find it objectionable enough to uninvite myself from the 
list over.

Put another way, I'm ordinarily proud to mention that I'm a gentooer and 
gentoo-dev-list regular.  I can't be proud of that comment, nor would I 
be particularly proud to claim that status in the context of that comment.
Yet as a guest here it's not a behavior norm I have much control over, 
something I /could/ point out in that context.  But I'd definitely be 
proud to be able to say that while it was an accepted norm in the past, 
that's no longer the case. =:^|

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