Moriel Schottlender <mschottlender at wikimedia.org> wrote:
In the gerrit commit that started this thing, you, yourself, publicly
wrote
this:
*"The Site Settings extension uses a bunch of WMF tools and services for its development, including hosting. If some random person sends me a patch for Site Settings by email, and I email them back and say "Your code
sucks,
you nitwit" (or worse), am I violating the Wikimedia Code of Conduct?"*
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/SiteSettings/+/43755...
This statement, the question itself, and the fact you are asking whether this violates the CoC means, to me, and others who are unwilling to work
in
a hostile environment, that you're unsure whether this is acceptable at
all.
You might see this question as an innocent attempt to nitpick over the specific details of whether by regulation something needs to happen. I see it as a hint that you might **actually** think this is an acceptable thing to do.
I asked a straightforward, and relevant, hypothetical question - ultimately that question is what this whole discussion is about. The fact that you're using it as a "hint" that I like to harass people strikes me not as some clever logic but as, yes, another personal attack. By my count, you're now the fourth person in this discussion to attack me and my motivations (though Brion apologized, so I consider that matter closed). It's dispiriting, and I don't think you're doing your argument any favors by it.
-Yaron