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On Sunday, November 6, 2016 3:43:12 PM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> That was irony. It seems that when the CoC comes up people react as |
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> if it is some kind of onerous burden, which is ironic since it has |
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> been applied with so much reservation that you can say practically |
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> anything you want on Gentoo media without repercussion. As far as I |
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> can tell it takes a pretty extreme action to get any kind of |
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> enforcement undertaken. |
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That is not reality. They have taken action on very minor offense. While I |
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have seen and been on the receiving end of FAR worse. There is no consistency. |
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There is no oversight, so how anyone could make such statements makes no |
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sense. |
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> People seem to think that everybody is out to censor everything, when |
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> the reality seems to be the opposite for the most part. I'm not |
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> really aware of any communities that are more lenient. I think that |
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> largely reflects the fact that we don't have an over-abundance of |
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> contributors so nobody is in a rush to go kicking people out. I |
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> suspect that people were more heavy-handed back when Gentoo was in its |
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> prime, though it was never a large community compared to more |
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> mainstream distros. |
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Yet still people are kept from returning and others driven away in 2015-2016, |
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not years ago... |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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