On 09/08/18 07:40, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
No, it was not thoughtful. What actually happened is that the other users are now submerged with dozens of emails analyzing that interjection. Sure, it's pretty easy to ignore this thread or even mute it in one's email reader, but one could just as well ignore that bug report. So no, it's not thoughtful. It's provocative, unnecessary, and nonconstructive.
Using the f-word shouldn't be fully banned, but it should be obvious that it is not always OK. Every case of using such language is supposed to trigger a consideration: "Is it OK to use it now?". This should be common sense, but apparently it isn't, so it's good to have a CoC to encourage people to be considerate. And it's good to enforce the CoC when necessary.
I don't really see how it's fair to hold someone responsible for the complete and utter overreaction of others as a result of a single, fairly ordinary statement on their part. No, MZMcBride's wtf wasn't exactly ideal, but by itself should have at worst been an easily ignored irritation. Only because of the compounding reactions to it does it appear to hold any weight at all; no other 'wtf's, 'fuck php's, 'oh fuck shit shit fucking fuck fuck did this do's, or even the sometimes cited James Wales statement that I would argue truly was completely inappropriate, have had any such impact, simply because everyone else refrained from losing their heads over it.
Perhaps we should all step back a bit and realise that /we're/ the ones making this a major issue - that the problem is not the statement that was made on phabricator, but everything that has occurred after.
What was it that really caused all this?
-I