On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:44 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner@gmail.com> wrote:

to let wikipedia NPOV also have a word, here what linus torvalds
thought about it two years ago:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137392506516022&w=2
in a summary, torvalds argues that sarah sharp should accept that
people are different and act different, she should not try to change
linus torvalds.

She didn't try to change Linus Torvalds. She left.

The question in every community is really quite simple when we talk about these things; If we want to let people be personally confrontational, unwelcoming or abusive because we want to let people who they are, then we lose people who have no patience or desire to be abused in their capacity as volunteers.

I think what Linus Torvalds is missing is empathy to others who aren't like *him* (ironically), but he's far from being the only one in the field to apparently lack that, especially in these type of discussions.

rupert

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wish that we had a proven solution for that kind of issue in online
> communities in general. It's quite disappointing. Thanks for forwarding that
> post.
>
> Pine
>
> On Oct 7, 2015 6:44 AM, "Jason Radford" <jsradford@uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I think folks here will understand this story.
>>
>> http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/

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